perfect storm
noun
: a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors
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Brooks also gives Ella a dead mother (Rebecca Hall) and a troubled brother (Spike Fearn), rendering the character a perfect storm of familial trauma, which makes her go-getter attitude all the more impressive.
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
In my work as a journalist, which sometimes involves covering the urban planning beat, countless economists and land use planners have told me that the rise of e-commerce, a global recession, and population growth requiring new housing has created a perfect storm for the demise of these spaces.
—Hazlitt, 10 Dec. 2025
Holiday shopping creates a perfect storm for cybercriminals.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Now, the third Black Cat reissue arrives at what should be a perfect storm of consumer demand and available supply.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2025
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Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 10 Dec. 2025
In my work as a journalist, which sometimes involves covering the urban planning beat, countless economists and land use planners have told me that the rise of e-commerce, a global recession, and population growth requiring new housing has created a perfect storm for the demise of these spaces.
—Hazlitt, 10 Dec. 2025
Holiday shopping creates a perfect storm for cybercriminals.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Dec. 2025
Now, the third Black Cat reissue arrives at what should be a perfect storm of consumer demand and available supply.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 9 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for perfect storm
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“Perfect storm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20storm. Accessed 19 Dec. 2025.
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