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Recent Examples of tidal wave
Its roughly 68,000 residents may be in for a shock, if a tidal wave of tourists decides to check it out for themselves.
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
This tidal wave of emotions is getting the better of me.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
The confrontation hits like a tidal wave, leaving Mia in its wake, spiraling as the weight of the reunion’s revelations bears down on her.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 21 Feb. 2025
The longer, brighter flares, on the other hand, are like tidal waves and are generated by more significant events in the accretion disk.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025
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Natasha Frost, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
This tidal wave of emotions is getting the better of me.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
The confrontation hits like a tidal wave, leaving Mia in its wake, spiraling as the weight of the reunion’s revelations bears down on her.
—Shelby Stewart, Essence, 21 Feb. 2025
The longer, brighter flares, on the other hand, are like tidal waves and are generated by more significant events in the accretion disk.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidal wave
Noun
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Three decades ago, SIU and Carbondale felt electric: Lecture halls overflowed; local businesses thrived on the fall surge of students; The Strip, a longstanding student hangout, spilled over every weekend, music rattling windows into the early morning hours.—
Molly Parker,
ProPublica,
27 Mar. 2025
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Riders will see the price upfront and won’t be subject to surge pricing.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Debris roughly the same volume as 10,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools plunged into the water below, creating a 650-foot-tall tsunami.—
Darren Orf,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 Mar. 2025
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His tsunami of levies has bludgeoned the stock market and wiped billions of dollars off Americans’ retirement accounts.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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The podcast, released in 2014, presented new evidence and led to a swell of interest in the case.—
Christina Morales,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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China has been designated a foreign adversary, and President Biden has heavily sanctioned the East Asian country’s electric vehicle exports, among other products, as its global sales swell.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
17 Jan. 2025
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Leveled homes, clubs and restaurants snaked along the shore, punctuated by billows of smoke from the few structures that remained.—
Loren Elliott,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Just past his backyard fence, gray billows of smoke filled the sky above the ridgeline and flames could be seen chewing through sagebrush just a couple miles away.—
Katie Langford,
The Denver Post,
10 Nov. 2024
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“Tidal wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidal%20wave. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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