hurricanes

noun

plural of hurricane
as in disturbances
a state of noisy, confused activity economic news that unleashed a hurricane on the trading floor

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Recent Examples of hurricanes The team navigated tropical storms, hurricanes and the Kelvin wave. — Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026 This sensor, first deployed on a GOES satellite in 2017, can detect lightning flashes anywhere on the globe and has proved to be useful for predicting tornadoes as well as monitoring the rapid intensification of tropical storms and hurricanes. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2026 Using wooden planks and sandbags, Long Beach City work crews earlier this month had patched up holes in the boardwalk’s wall created by the hurricanes, but the reinforcements did not hold. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026 Meanwhile, the weather pattern has dampened hurricanes in the Atlantic, where the ACE is less than 18% of what's normal for this time of year. — CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 The Caribbean, which often sees late-season hurricanes throughout October, has especially high wind shear from the El Niño, so storms are not expected there. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026 No hurricanes have yet been recorded there this season, thanks largely to fiercer upper-level winds tearing apart nascent storms. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026 The average hurricane is about 300 miles (482 kilometers) wide, but hurricanes – or typhoons, as they’re called in the western Pacific of the Northern Hemisphere – can be much bigger or smaller. — Zachary Handlos, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hurricanes
  1. disturbances
  2. commotions
  3. storms
  4. stirs
  5. turmoils
  6. noises
Noun
  • The vote, which is veto-proof, was met with praise by animal rights groups and park advocates who have long called for the ban citing several incidents where horses crashed or caused disturbances.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Record low quantum errors Quantum computers use qubits to process data, but these are highly sensitive to outside disturbances.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of disturbances
Noun
  • Over the past year, men’s ski jumping has been marred by Norway’s cheating scandal and more recent genital manipulation rumors, which has become one of the early commotions of the Milano-Cortina Games.
    — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 8 Feb. 2026
Definition of commotions
Noun
  • That means that our understanding of their makeup, their storms, and their evolution really only comes from theory.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Authorities in Colima said the risks remained low but warned that heavy rainfall could cause damage because successive storms had already saturated the ground along the Pacific coast.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of storms
Noun
  • Refrigerated pie crust helps this pie come together with just a few stirs of the whisk.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of stirs
Noun
  • About two couples, connected and dependent on one another, raising their kids alongside each other, facing the same turmoils, the same existential questions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Mayer and Strong offer a broad pop-history lesson, in which the same tensions and turmoils churn on and on in their terrible cycle throughout the decades; the only thing that’s changed are the aesthetics.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of turmoils
Noun
  • Daunt made a series of small groaning noises on the approach.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Opened in 1893, the hotel has Romanesque Revival architecture, and players have claimed to hear spooky noises and footsteps.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of noises

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