perfect storm
noun
: a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors
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This public health perfect storm is something schools, families, pediatricians and government leaders need to take seriously.
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Oona Hanson, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Decoding the enrollment numbers Miami-Dade schools superintendent Jose Dotres pointed to a perfect storm of reasons for the drastic decline in enrollment at a press conference two weeks into the school year.
—Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
This creates a perfect storm for conflict, inefficiency, and fraud.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Thanks to a perfect storm of economic luck, such as affordable home prices and steady wages, boomers have accumulated a collective net worth of $82 trillion— more than double that of Gen X ($42 trillion) and four times that of millennials ($16 trillion), according to data from Investopedia.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
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Oona Hanson, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Decoding the enrollment numbers Miami-Dade schools superintendent Jose Dotres pointed to a perfect storm of reasons for the drastic decline in enrollment at a press conference two weeks into the school year.
—Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
This creates a perfect storm for conflict, inefficiency, and fraud.
—Matt Emma, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Thanks to a perfect storm of economic luck, such as affordable home prices and steady wages, boomers have accumulated a collective net worth of $82 trillion— more than double that of Gen X ($42 trillion) and four times that of millennials ($16 trillion), according to data from Investopedia.
—Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
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“Perfect storm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20storm. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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