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Recent Examples of northeaster
The ocean keeps coming because of climate change, sea level rise, nor'easters, hurricanes, et cetera.
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Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
8 July 2023
That morning, around 6, authorities found O'Keefe on the ground outside the Canton home just before a nor'easter struck the town with 21 inches of snow.
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Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
26 May 2023
Last month, much of upstate New York and New Hampshire received heavy snow, with more than 2 feet of snow falling in several regions along the East Coast because of a nor'easter in March.
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Teddy Grant,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2023
The storm could bring the highest snowfall totals of the season to Boston as well as other parts of coastal Massachusetts, potentially causing power outages in the area come Tuesday when the nor'easter is at its peak, CBS Boston reported.
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Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2023
Snowfall is expected in Connecticut during the approaching nor'easter.
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Lauren Booker,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Mar. 2023
Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
8 July 2023
That morning, around 6, authorities found O'Keefe on the ground outside the Canton home just before a nor'easter struck the town with 21 inches of snow.
—
Audrey Conklin,
Fox News,
26 May 2023
Last month, much of upstate New York and New Hampshire received heavy snow, with more than 2 feet of snow falling in several regions along the East Coast because of a nor'easter in March.
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Teddy Grant,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2023
The storm could bring the highest snowfall totals of the season to Boston as well as other parts of coastal Massachusetts, potentially causing power outages in the area come Tuesday when the nor'easter is at its peak, CBS Boston reported.
—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2023
Snowfall is expected in Connecticut during the approaching nor'easter.
—
Lauren Booker,
BostonGlobe.com,
12 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for northeaster
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The United States is also facing gale-force productivity headwinds, such as the aging of the population and the relentlessly rising cost of health care, education, and housing.
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His football outing on ITV was perfectly good value, even if there was the near-instant karma of an off-camera Brooklyn gale threatening to blow the set down.
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Vingegaard’s victory at the Giro d’Italia in May, allied with Wout Van Aert’s cathartic win at Paris-Roubaix, has delivered two key objectives but the surprise departure of head of racing Grischa Niermann to Lidl-Trek was a blow.
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Hers is a voice that ought to have a lifetime’s staying power, bolstered by a lyrical and musical sensibility that provide everything her instrument needs to deliver a happy succession of knockout blows.
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The most violent wind report came from Northbrook, where half of a roof on a 20-car garage was lifted and then dropped, damaging at least seven cars in a parking shelter for a condominium.
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More than 75 million were in the threat zone for severe storms in the coming hours, stretching across parts of the Plains into the Northeast, with the primary hazard being damaging wind gusts.
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Wendling, the most north-westerly site of all and barely in the valley, turns the same cool end darker, toward plum, blackberry and savoury earth.
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First, through a combination of weaker trade winds and westerlies over the tropical Atlantic, La Niña tends to create a more placid atmosphere.
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“Northeaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/northeaster. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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