Thesaurus results for TEMPESTS

tempests

noun

plural of tempest

as in storms

a disturbance of the atmosphere accompanied by wind and often by precipitation (as rain or snow) the sudden summertime tempest drove us off the golf course and into the clubhouse

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as in upheavals

a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order) the town council handled the tempest over cuts to the school budget as well as could be expected

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Recent Examples of tempests One version of the nation’s history anchors itself in the efforts to navigate those tempests, to better the imperfect tools bequeathed to us by imperfect men. —

Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 4 May 2026 For now, Buttigieg has chosen to wait out the tempests in Traverse City, the hometown of his husband, Chasten, a former schoolteacher. —

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026 But flooding — and not just from those tropical tempests — is a multibillion-dollar threat that is largely untracked by government agencies and often kept secret from the public. —

Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2025 But instead of clouds and rain, these electromagnetic tempests are made of plasma, charged particles whipped into motion by Earth's magnetic field. —

Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025 The force of the collision pushed up mountains three miles high; millions of years of tempests wore them down. —

Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 24 Nov. 2024 Hwang seems to be suggesting that a line can indeed be drawn from the cultural tempests – too easily dismissed as matters of political correctness – to the real-world tragedies and obscenities that send innocent men to jail and early graves. —

Greg Evans, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2024

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This is accepted standard practice in the region, but the baterias often overflow during storms, sending water rich in heavy metals into the streams that feed the Caqueta river.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 27 May 2026
The weather pattern has already brought some showers to Northern California, where additional storms are expected all week, according to the weather service.

— Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2026