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Recent Examples of tidal wave
Answers include: radiation storms, tidal waves, mass destruction, and yes, more meteors.
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Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Unlike the emotional tidal wave of last week’s Pisces eclipse, this one is quieter, subtler, but no less important.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 14 Sep. 2025
The result is a tidal wave of companies moving away from artificial colors, even before any new regulations kick in forcing them to ditch these products.
—Louis Biscotti, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Just as New Orleans has spent the last 20 years on the road to recovery, DRP is working to reckon with Detroit's tidal wave of unjust property tax foreclosures and chart a path toward repair.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
Unlike the emotional tidal wave of last week’s Pisces eclipse, this one is quieter, subtler, but no less important.
—Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 14 Sep. 2025
The result is a tidal wave of companies moving away from artificial colors, even before any new regulations kick in forcing them to ditch these products.
—Louis Biscotti, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Just as New Orleans has spent the last 20 years on the road to recovery, DRP is working to reckon with Detroit's tidal wave of unjust property tax foreclosures and chart a path toward repair.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidal wave
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The Ministry of Environment blamed this year’s surge on a poor acorn harvest – which drove a similar spate of attacks in 2023.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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But a consulting firm that tracks pink slips noted a big surge in layoff notices.—
NPR,
NPR,
7 Nov. 2025
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The Poseidon, first glimpsed on Russian state television a decade ago, was developed to travel very large distances and trigger a city-destroying tsunami.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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All proceeds from digital sales of the single went to victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.—
Angelika Ytuarte,
jsonline.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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The fall and winter offer the best swells of the year, turbocharged by nor’easters and tropical storms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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The swells are likely to cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions, forecasters said.—
Gabe Hauari,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Passersby stared as billows of smoke rose into the air above the White House as part of the home shared by the United States president and his family crumbled to the ground.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Smoke billows following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday.—
Chantal Da Silva,
NBC news,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Tidal wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidal%20wave. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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