tidal wave

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Recent Examples of tidal wave Answers include: radiation storms, tidal waves, mass destruction, and yes, more meteors. 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 See All Example Sentences for tidal wave
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Noun
  • Thailand’s Public Health Ministry also warned of a surge in influenza cases in September.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The price surge in bitcoin helped create another 70,000 new crypto millionaires over the past year, adding hundreds of billions of dollars in potential spending to the economy, according to new studies.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage on Tuesday, and no tsunami warning.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Regional tsunami warnings have since been cancelled, according to Reuters, but the pair of quakes left behind damage to buildings and roads.
    Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, if the swell lingers, changes are possible, and the advisory will be extended.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • These swells will spread westward toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico tonight, then toward the rest of the Greater Antilles over the next couple of days.
    MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Each of the camp’s villas is built with canvas tents that billow in the breeze, opening onto hardwood decks where elephants wander to drink and hippos sound their warning calls at any species who dare venture too near their territory.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Smoke billows during Israeli strikes on the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City on September 5, 2025, amid the war between Israel and the Hamas militant movement.
    Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Sep. 2025

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