perfect storm

noun

: a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors

Examples of perfect storm in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The cost of living crisis exacerbated these trends, Griffiths pointed out, creating a perfect storm for Europe’s automakers. —

Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 16 Apr. 2024 Nonprofit theaters nationwide are contending with this perfect storm. —

Charles McNulty, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2024 In a text, Rodriguez said that a perfect storm of factors made continuing at Union Beer too difficult. —

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2024 Countries like Guyana are caught in a perfect storm where the consequences for extracting fossil fuels collide with the incentives to do so. —

Gaiutra Bahadur Keisha Scarville, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2024 Combined, these two factors create a perfect storm of gratification that gives players both the ability to push the worries of life to the back of their minds for a few hours and feel accomplished for doing so at the same time. —

Ian Walker |, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024 Johannesburg is one of many of the world’s big cities that are dealing with a perfect storm of crumbling critical infrastructure, lack of maintenance, corruption and insufficient planning for population growth. —

Sarah Dean, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024 Some say the problem is rooted in the economic pressures and salon closures that came with the early Covid pandemic; increased social media use and the rise of at-home hairstylists led to a perfect storm. —

Claretta Bellamy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2024 All of which brings us to a perfect storm for Apple in 2024. —

Zak Doffman, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024

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