paroxysms

plural of paroxysm

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Recent Examples of paroxysms The post is now nearing a hundred million views and inspiring paroxysms of millennial self-reckoning. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paroxysms
Noun
  • The sound of wheels hitting concrete blends with bursts of laughter and cheers.
    Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
  • One emerging approach gaining traction is called microlearning, a strategy that delivers academic content in short bursts rather than lengthy lessons.
    Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In an alternate timeline without COVID-19 and the cultural upheavals of 2020, Bennet might be the executive editor of The New York Times.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The United States and South Korea previously butted heads over how to handle the threat from North Korea, and there have been periodic public upheavals in Korean public opinion over tragic incidents involving American troops stationed on the peninsula.
    KURT M. CAMPBELL, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Howard, a queen bee with a racy reputation, became a scene-stealer with her emotional outbursts and volatile friendship with Maddy (Alexa Demie).
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • With his natural charisma and naked emotion, Thug and Big Bank go all the way back to rapper’s childhood traumas (his apartment complex burning down, his older brother dying in front of him) to try to get to the bottom of his emotional outbursts.
    Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For more severe and potentially life-threatening infections, symptoms may include headaches, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions.
    Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • An hour later, Bradley Fullerton’s cellmate sought help because Fullerton was having convulsions, according to the filing.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Video footage from the area showed multiple large explosions in Gaza City on Tuesday as the IDF pressed its offensive.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Aside from heavy tanks and artillery firing salvos leading to big explosions and heavy smoke on the training area, infantry units also charged forward on motorcycles, quad bikes or on foot under the cover of drones.
    Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But history shows that technological revolutions tend to transform roles rather than simply eliminate them.
    Thanh Pham, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Interestingly, it was found spinning at 100 revolutions per second.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As part of the new study, Knutsen and her team programmed Perseverance's cameras to watch the sky after solar eruptions known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) blasted in the direction of Mars.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Kamchatka sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, where tectonic activity frequently triggers earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
    Amanda Castro John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • It is estimated that there are 500,000 detectable earthquakes in the world each year.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In July, a geologist warned that an ongoing cluster of smaller earthquakes near the Nicobar Islands could signal a volcanic eruption in the Andaman Sea, which raises fears of another tsunami.
    M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Paroxysms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paroxysms. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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