tumults

plural of tumult
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as in noises
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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Noun
  • Not only have students been impacted by political upheavals in higher education, but faculty members have faced an unpredictable professional landscape as well.
    Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The drama about a Turkish college professor facing major upheavals on two home fronts bowed at Sundance and stars Ekin Koc, Erkan Kolçak Kostendil, Hazar Erguclu and Ercan Kesal.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Amiron 200 has two microphones for clear voice pickup and call quality, consistently filtering out distracting ambient noises using ENC.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • To make sure drivers don’t miss critical cues, important noises can also be piped directly into the cabin via the headrest.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This stereo effect was crucial, allowing interpreters to detect subtle details, from industrial structures to environmental disturbances.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Not all philosophers are willing to count these disturbances of an animal’s serene environment or personal space as an invasion of privacy.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Kurzweil’s singularity parallels ideas from Italian and Russian futurists amid the electrical and mechanical revolutions that took place at the turn of the 20th century.
    Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In particular, revolutions like special relativity and general relativity, quantum mechanics and quantum field theory, and the Big Bang and cosmic inflation completely overthrew our prior picture of how things actually behave.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Washington delivers the dialogue with a thrilling range from purrs to roars, all imbued with an authoritative swagger.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • About two couples, connected and dependent on one another, raising their kids alongside each other, facing the same turmoils, the same existential questions.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The president can also legally invoke the military under the Insurrection Act, which allows troops to be deployed in order to curb insurrections.
    Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • More importantly, the most recent of these sightings, just two years ago, was by a railroad passenger, so keep a lookout for a tall, hairy figure, or for massive footprints, which are also commonly reported, and listen for the mysterious creature’s spine-tingling howls.
    The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Tumults.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tumults. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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