as in controversy
variance of opinion on a matter
a seemingly endless firestorm was ignited by that U.S. Supreme Court decision
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Recent Examples of firestorm
Apart from the firestorm over the rebranding, some analysts say the Jaguar may have a tough time standing out in a high-end EV market is already crowded.
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Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
Trump sparked a firestorm in his first term by firing James Comey and replacing him with Wray.
—Neal Rothschild, Axios, 30 Nov. 2024
Tangent Adani’s indictment by the U.S. government triggered a political firestorm in India on Thursday, as the opposition attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his long-time close ties to the billionaire.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
The fact that the shooter may have been motivated by the way UnitedHealthcare handled claims has ignited an online firestorm of people who have widespread complaints about the health insurance industry.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Robert Ferris, CNBC, 4 Dec. 2024
Trump sparked a firestorm in his first term by firing James Comey and replacing him with Wray.
—Neal Rothschild, Axios, 30 Nov. 2024
Tangent Adani’s indictment by the U.S. government triggered a political firestorm in India on Thursday, as the opposition attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his long-time close ties to the billionaire.
—Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
The fact that the shooter may have been motivated by the way UnitedHealthcare handled claims has ignited an online firestorm of people who have widespread complaints about the health insurance industry.
—Megan Poinski, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firestorm
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The controversy began after negotiations over the 2025 agreements failed, prompting the teams to file their legal dispute on October 2, 2024, in the Western District of North Carolina.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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Welcome to the heated and ongoing controversy about this weighty matter.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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El Salvador’s audacious decision in 2021 to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender and establish a national Bitcoin reserve ignited a global debate on the future of reserve assets.Sean Lee, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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Quite when that point is, is a matter of some debate.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Research has distinguished between three simple strategies to deal with neighbor disputes: avoidance of the party whose behavior is experienced as unneighborly; confronting the neighbor face-to-face; and relying on a third party to sort out the issue, e.g. the landlord or even police.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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Nearly a decade later, a dark storm cloud has descended upon his increasingly unpopular administration, with the resignation of a top Cabinet minister over a dispute about how to manage US president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.Lex Harvey, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Jake is a single father who has brought Kristen up in the severe Calvinist tradition, marked by Bible disputations of Talmudic intricacy and by a radical detachment from secular and popular culture.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
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And yet there is one aspect of the book which was notable: a disputation of the Richard Wrangham's work in Demonic Males.Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2013
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Event Highlights: Better Workplaces: How to Foster Inclusion and Civility By Aman Kidwai Workplaces Editor 1 The latest episode of Newsweek's Horizons podcast explores the challenge of rising political disagreement in the workplace.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
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There is some disagreement in the scientific community over the question of how climate change will affect plant health and groundwater availability across a variety of biomes, with competing models and approaches providing different answers.Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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“Firestorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firestorm. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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