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northwester

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  1. blow
  2. gale
  3. northeaster
  4. wind
Noun
  • There have been plenty of in-game rotations, promising combinations, fluidity and creativity, but without the delivery of a final hammer blow.
    — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The residents had sustained another blow when my friend, John Ahern, was a passenger on Pan Am Flight 103 that exploded on December 21, 1988 from a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of blow
Noun
  • New York’s summer weather has been a trial and a tribulation, intense heat — temperatures reached over 100 degrees in Central Park on the hottest day in July — alternating with gales and floods.
    — Matthew Schneier, Curbed, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Just over two weeks later, a storm with gale-force winds struck, and Halliburton, his partner Paul Mooney, and roughly 12 crewmen disappeared without a trace.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of gale
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  • The ocean keeps coming because of climate change, sea level rise, nor'easters, hurricanes, et cetera.
    — 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
Definition of northeaster
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  • Tropical storm-force winds extend out up to 175 miles from the center of the storm.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
  • But even Brighton have been swept along by the prevailing transfer winds this summer.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
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