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windstorms

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plural of windstorm

as in tornadoes

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The rounds of showers and storms will bring the threat of damaging winds, hail, a few tornadoes and chances for flash flooding in certain areas.

— Aleem Agha, ABC News, 18 July 2026
After days of smoky skies and heavy heat, New Yorkers on Saturday were once again bracing for severe weather, which is expected to include intense thunderstorms, isolated tornadoes, and hail.

— Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 18 July 2026

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The weather in Wales was terrible, with snow and freezing temperatures and Arctic gales.

— Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
Out in the ferocious gales of the North Sea, on the overcrowded routes of the Irish Sea and the English Channel, and off to the islands’ west, the wide Atlantic herself.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Nov. 2025

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In a little corner of my mind, however, history will always mean the tragic smashing of individual lives by its cruel hands and the scattering of bewildered people reeling from its blows.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
One way to look at the Washington Nationals’ kick-in-the-groin sweep at the hands of the New York Yankees — three leads in the eighth inning, three dizzying losses — is that none of the previous blows this team has taken have permanently felled it.

— Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 13 July 2026

Definition of blows

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After strong wind gusts on Tuesday, milder winds up to 8 mph will breeze through Boise until Wednesday night.

— Hali Smith, Idaho Statesman, 14 July 2026
Winds are forecasted to be northwest to north winds 20 to 30 mph with gusts of 35 to 55 mph, strongest in Sundowner wind prone areas of southern Santa Barbara County and relative humidity 10 to 25%.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 July 2026

Definition of gusts

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In Homer’s Odyssey, the Greek hero Odysseus must overcome tempests, temptations, mythical monsters, and divine wrath to sail home to the island of Ithaca after the Trojan War.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 July 2026
One version of the nation’s history anchors itself in the efforts to navigate those tempests, to better the imperfect tools bequeathed to us by imperfect men.

— Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

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