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Noun
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The same weather system is also fueling high winds across the Great Plains and causing wildfires to rapidly spread.—
Rob Marciano,
CBS News,
18 May 2026 -
In unleashing its high-end, Category 4, 150-mile-per-hour winds four years ago, Hurricane Ian cemented a reputation as the deadliest Florida hurricane in almost 90 years.—
Jeffrey Steele,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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The weather in Wales was terrible, with snow and freezing temperatures and Arctic gales.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Out in the ferocious gales of the North Sea, on the overcrowded routes of the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and off to the islands’ west, the wide Atlantic herself.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Nov. 2025
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The system, called WhaleSpotter, scans the bay around the clock for whale blows and heat signatures up to 2 nautical miles away, alerting mariners to slow down or reroute when whales are nearby.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 May 2026
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While the killing dealt one of the biggest blows to ISIS’s global network in years, disrupting operations in northeastern Nigeria, the terror group's top leader, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, remains at large as Africa becomes the movement's global epicenter.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
17 May 2026
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But even this state-of-the-art model couldn’t directly account for the subtle cumulative effects of clouds, which can span just meters and be shaped by even tinier zephyrs of air.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Feb. 2026
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Facing these and other headwinds, Netanyahu and his allies have been working to undermine the Central Elections Committee, an independent body that manages Knesset elections.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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But even in the face of all the political and economic headwinds facing late night, Colbert himself has a reputation for being kind and engaging.—
Laura Bradley,
Vanity Fair,
18 May 2026
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Now he’s gainfully employed and featured on the network nearly all year, including on a draft-centric studio show that airs every weekday afternoon for the ten weeks preceding the event.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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An impression that airs on the show can quickly become the default version for a broad audience, regardless of where similar ideas may have originated.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
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“Northers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/northers. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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