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Recent Examples of aftershock
The Super Bowl may be over, but the aftershocks are still rolling in.
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Maggie Ekberg, SPIN, 26 Feb. 2025
Loktev, who previously directed a pair of subtly powerful indie thrillers, Day Night Day Night (2006) and The Loneliest Planet (2011), delivers a slow and sweeping real-world thriller whose aftershocks are still being felt today.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Expect aftershocks to follow the main shock of an earthquake.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
The moment left onlookers stunned and the aftershocks have continued to ripple throughout Spain and the globe.
—Emily Olsen, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
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Maggie Ekberg, SPIN, 26 Feb. 2025
Loktev, who previously directed a pair of subtly powerful indie thrillers, Day Night Day Night (2006) and The Loneliest Planet (2011), delivers a slow and sweeping real-world thriller whose aftershocks are still being felt today.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2025
Expect aftershocks to follow the main shock of an earthquake.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
The moment left onlookers stunned and the aftershocks have continued to ripple throughout Spain and the globe.
—Emily Olsen, The Athletic, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aftershock
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The college basketball world was in shock when USC Trojans women’s basketball star JuJu Watkins suffered a season-ending knee injury during the team’s March Madness game against Mississippi State earlier this week.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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The reveal of David being a Survivor alum came as a shock to most of the eliminated DONDI contestants who were watching in the audience.—
Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article GAINESVILLE — Coach Todd Golden’s iPhone was blowing up, eventually settling at 330 text messages in the afterglow of his first championship at Florida.—
Edgar Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2025
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Last summer, in the afterglow of a record fourth consecutive English league title, Manchester City didn’t feel the need to do much.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
The Athletic,
19 Mar. 2025
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The quake could exacerbate hunger and disease outbreaks in a country that was already one of the world’s most challenging places for humanitarian organizations to operate because of civil war, aid groups and the United Nations warned.—
David Rising,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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More than 3 million people had already been displaced by fighting before the quake.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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Related article Putin just called Trump’s bluff on Ukraine, with the Russian art of the ‘no’ deal Indeed, Russia has for years been moving its official funds out of the US, apparently fearful of repercussions over its aggressions in Ukraine and Georgia.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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The withholding of federal dollars from the non-profit broadcasters has had immediate repercussions.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
21 Mar. 2025
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Have large foreshocks happened in California before? About half of California's biggest earthquakes in history have been preceded by foreshocks.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA TODAY,
7 Aug. 2024
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As always, there’s a 5% chance of today’s quake being a foreshock to a bigger one.—
Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
12 Sep. 2024
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Many people, including this author, believe there will be short-term economic fallout from the pullback in government spending related to the activities of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).—
Sal Gilbertie,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Concerns have been raised over the economic fallout of the administration's hard-line immigration policies, with critics arguing that large-scale deportations could severely cripple the U.S. economy.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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Aftershocks, the largest of which was a 6.7-magnitude tremor Friday, have continued throughout the weekend, according to the USGS.—
Brad Lendon and Alex Stambaugh,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2025
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Images from the Southeast Asian country on Saturday show the aftermath of the earthquake and tremors, including a 6.4-magnitude aftershock.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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Ukraine in focus The two heads of states' Thursday talks also touched on a second key concern for Trump — accelerating the denouement of the war in Ukraine and European proactivism in increasing defense spending.—
Ruxandra Iordache,Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
28 Feb. 2025
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And during the famously bloody denouement — when all but one of the remaining characters are killed, in a matter of minutes — the bodies of Gertrude, Laertes and Claudius tumble down the deck and out of sight, one by one, leaving only the dying Hamlet, cradled by his friend Horatio.—
Houman Barekat,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Aftershock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aftershock. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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