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an extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm that occurs especially in the region of the Philippines or the China Sea
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Recent Examples of typhoon
The country was already recovering from an offshore earthquake and typhoons in the last few months.
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Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2025
Remnants of a powerful typhoon swept into Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, 2025, producing a storm surge that flooded villages as far as 60 miles up the river.
—Rick Thoman, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
The typhoon's remnants damaged roads, communication lines and an airport runway.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
In the week before the typhoon, overall tonnages from the wider Asia Pacific region to the U.S. ticked up 2 percent week over week, and were 5 percent higher from the year prior, according to WorldACD.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
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Rajeev Tyagi, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2025
Remnants of a powerful typhoon swept into Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, 2025, producing a storm surge that flooded villages as far as 60 miles up the river.
—Rick Thoman, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
The typhoon's remnants damaged roads, communication lines and an airport runway.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
In the week before the typhoon, overall tonnages from the wider Asia Pacific region to the U.S. ticked up 2 percent week over week, and were 5 percent higher from the year prior, according to WorldACD.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for typhoon
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The Philippines is no stranger to typhoons and Kalmaegi made landfall as the equivalent of a category 2 hurricane – the 20th named storm to impact the country this year, according to local officials.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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Some of this, of course, is related to fires in California and hurricanes in the southeast that destroyed an enormous amount of utility infrastructure.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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But a press release noted the project has been postponed to 2026, given the onset of the South Pacific cyclone season.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Many of them fled to the cities from their rural, coastal home villages because the increasing frequency of disasters like floods, riverbank erosion and cyclones, also due to climate change, made their already fragile livelihoods untenable.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Typhoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typhoon. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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