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Recent Examples of tidal wave
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.
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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
On another snap, two Patriots linebackers walked up to the line of scrimmage; McCarthy changed the play but was eventually engulfed in the pocket by what felt like a tidal wave.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Using these strategies—even something as simple as a quick check-in between meetings—can stop a ripple of stress from turning into a tidal wave of burnout.
—Marc Brackett, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
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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
On another snap, two Patriots linebackers walked up to the line of scrimmage; McCarthy changed the play but was eventually engulfed in the pocket by what felt like a tidal wave.
—Alec Lewis, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Using these strategies—even something as simple as a quick check-in between meetings—can stop a ripple of stress from turning into a tidal wave of burnout.
—Marc Brackett, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidal wave
Noun
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Coastal flooding from storm surge, beach erosion and strong coastal winds would also be threats regardless of a landfall.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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In addition to those direct fatalities, the government agency said there were 176 direct fatalities caused by either wind, storm surge, flooding or tornadoes.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The only exception to what likely will be a major legal tsunami may be the Federal Reserve Board.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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Watching mainstream British politicians obsess over the threat of Farage is a bit like watching the video on the internet of the guy standing motionless on the beach in Thailand, the water draining around his ankles, waiting for the tsunami to arrive.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Confidence is also increasing in coastal impacts from a long-period swell from Humberto, the weather service said.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Coraline’s poppy swells and power ballads.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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Rapace’s kit — with that long thoroughbred stride somehow made greater by the black grosgrain stripes, the velocity of it all filling that billow in the cape — cut a blistering path down the Bugonia carpet.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Tidal wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidal%20wave. Accessed 27 Sep. 2025.
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