as in flood
a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms
the dam broke, unleashing a torrent down the dry riverbed
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Recent Examples of torrent
The Trump Administration has unleashed a torrent of unconstitutional executive orders and other questionable legal actions; with many of them, its goal seems less to win in the end than to inflict as much damage as possible along the way.
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
But that hasn't stopped a torrent of big news this week, from exploding Starships to significant reuse milestones being reached in Asia.
—ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
On a purely textual level, the sentences are a torrent, jouncing on rocks, gliding gleefully through mud.
—Jane Alison
june 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
Rivers and streams throughout Connecticut become raging torrents.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
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Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
But that hasn't stopped a torrent of big news this week, from exploding Starships to significant reuse milestones being reached in Asia.
—ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
On a purely textual level, the sentences are a torrent, jouncing on rocks, gliding gleefully through mud.
—Jane Alison
june 17, Literary Hub, 17 June 2025
Rivers and streams throughout Connecticut become raging torrents.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for torrent
flood
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And that flood will continue for 10 years straight as the Rubin Observatory executes its signature project, dubbed the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
1 July 2025
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Without good plumbing, teams can drown in a flood of false positives or irrelevant data.—
Alex Lanstein,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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“Torrent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torrent. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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