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as in commotion
a state of noisy, confused activity
in the tumult of the evacuation from the coast, we accidentally left on the television, which was of course tuned to the local newscast breathlessly reporting on the hurricane we were fleeing
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as in upheaval
a violent disturbance (as of the political or social order)
the political tumult that swept the American colonies in the late 1700s
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as in roar
a violent shouting
went to the window to see what the great tumult was and discovered a crowd of demonstrators marching down the street
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Recent Examples of tumult
Iranian leadership complained that visas for key staff members were being held up and the tumult was disturbing its preparation for the tournament.
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Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
Follmer is intimately acquainted with the tumult regarding the campus.
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Quil Lawrence,
NPR,
2 June 2026
This latest housing tumult isn’t just some Southern California weirdness.
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Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
Schwarz interviews activists, historians, and participants in the scene, providing valuable context for how the film’s location shooting in Greenwich Village became a focal point for the movement at a moment of social and political tumult.
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Jason Bailey,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
Follmer is intimately acquainted with the tumult regarding the campus.
—
Quil Lawrence,
NPR,
2 June 2026
This latest housing tumult isn’t just some Southern California weirdness.
—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
Schwarz interviews activists, historians, and participants in the scene, providing valuable context for how the film’s location shooting in Greenwich Village became a focal point for the movement at a moment of social and political tumult.
—
Jason Bailey,
Vulture,
27 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tumult
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By this time, multiple police officers had arrived on the scene, according to a convenience store clerk who witnessed the commotion outside.
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Seeing the commotion, Louis and Paul came galloping back.
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Yet at a time of perpetual upheaval in Hollywood, the unflashy Meledandri has created and shaped one of Hollywood’s most consistent blockbuster-making operations.
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Earth-impacting shrapnel from those primordial upheavals may have helped seed our planet with the precursors for life, delivering water and organic compounds from the dark, icy depths of the outer solar system.
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Gratitude on a stage has rarely seemed more palpable than in Williams basking in the glow of the arena roar; here is someone who, in the spirit of Dylan and the actual words of Doe, has been beyond and back.
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Video taken from Vestavia Hills, a community in central Alabama, showed brown floodwater inundating local streets amid the roar of rain.
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Golt could not say what the disturbance was about.
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However, in the eastern Pacific basin, a pair of tropical disturbances are being watched for possible development in the next several days far from land.
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Haiti also did it without playing a single qualifying match in Haiti because of unrest.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party retained its large parliamentary majority in recent elections overshadowed by unrest in Africa’s second-most-populous country.
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But residents who live near hyperscale centers have expressed outrage over a range of issues, including health impacts, spiking utility bills, constant noise, dropping water pressure and concerns about potentially losing their land through eminent domain.
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Some carried placards and others banged plates, their noise cutting through the crowd protesting and demanding the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
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The federal program, established by Congress in 1990, shields immigrants from countries in turmoil from deportation.
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This catastrophe severely exacerbates Venezuela's existing economic crisis and political turmoil, leaving children facing extreme deprivation, malnutrition, and disease.
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Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
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Her presence is heralded not by the sounds of howls, roars or clanking chains, but by the shutting of the door to her study, the scrape of her chair as it is pulled towards her desk, and the clanking of her type-writer keys.
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“Tumult.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tumult. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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