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Recent Examples of aftershock
The scholar duo compare the fallout to the aftershock of an earthquake, chronicling the days, months and years after the initial disaster took place.
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Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025
When a quake strikes, there's often a chance that aftershocks will follow.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Mostly, there are the aftershocks of that Atletico transfer.
—Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
The first aftershock following the New England quake came days later on Wednesday around 3:15 a.m.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 2 Feb. 2025
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Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2025
When a quake strikes, there's often a chance that aftershocks will follow.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 11 Feb. 2025
Mostly, there are the aftershocks of that Atletico transfer.
—Jack Lang, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
The first aftershock following the New England quake came days later on Wednesday around 3:15 a.m.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 2 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aftershock
Noun
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Dreamy forests and bright angels curdle and mutate into digital grotesquerie, a Spam Folder of faceless creatures and shock shlock.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Feb. 2025
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Hamilton, 40, got his first chance to drive Ferrari’s new car for the 2025 season in a short shakedown test at its private test track in Italy on Wednesday following his shock winter move.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
19 Feb. 2025
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This week, the Canadian leg of the U.S. Open prelude brought surprises galore, with the afterglow of the Paris 2024 Olympic tennis and some serious rain creating strange results.—
James Hansen,
The Athletic,
12 Aug. 2024
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In the afterglow of CODA, which won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award before going on to win Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards, Hollywood still looks to Park City as a blast-off pad for future Oscar bait.—
Chris Lee,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2025
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In 2015, Oklahoma recorded almost 900 quakes greater than M3, six times as many as in California.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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When a quake occurs, aftershocks are often a possibility.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
15 Feb. 2025
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Morning Edition is exploring the repercussions of America's foreign policy reversals and realignments under President Trump with different writers, analysts and leaders.—
Obed Manuel,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2025
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But when that never came, the employee sent in bullet points to avoid possible repercussions.—
Chris Megerian,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 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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Far-right extremist groups have been cowed in the last four years by the fallout and prosecutions from the Jan. 6 insurrection, said Katherine Keneally, head of threat analysis and prevention at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.—
Will Carless,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Mozeliak and Arenado have squashed any lingering frustration from the Astros fallout, multiple team sources say, and Arenado has pivoted to focusing on bettering his play after two consecutive years of offensive decline.—
Katie Woo,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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The one warning sign that hasn't come yet is something called tremors.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
17 Feb. 2025
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The 1992 eruptions began in June of that year following about three weeks of volcanic tremor, Haney said.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2025
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By then, the staging — especially a scene-seating capsizing of the boat, which makes room for the lifeboat — was in place, and the gruesome denouement also remained.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Movies ‘Gladiator II’ exaggerates, but historians say the real-life Colosseum was plenty wild Nov. 22, 2024 The increasing strain of U.S. isolationism has led many to consider the pending denouement of another empire, this one American.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Aftershock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aftershock. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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