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Recent Examples of tidal wave
The actual formula of the Thanksgiving dinner—that enormous roast, the bready stuffing, the potatoes, the gravy, a dollop of tart cranberry sauce to cut through the tidal wave of richness—isn’t unique to Thanksgiving.
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
To be certain, Republicans are still favored by most prognosticators to take the Senate this year, but even some GOP operatives conceded that aspirations of a tidal wave election may not be within their grasp.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
This organic audience growth comes in part from songs previously released such as tidal wave and sunburn, as well as from the new material on the DIVE album.
—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The newsroom was rocked by a tidal wave of resignations from columnists and cancellations from digital subscribers, who expressed anger and dismay that the venerable, Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization had abandoned its role in standing up to the threat described by Woodward and Bernstein.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2024
To be certain, Republicans are still favored by most prognosticators to take the Senate this year, but even some GOP operatives conceded that aspirations of a tidal wave election may not be within their grasp.
—Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
This organic audience growth comes in part from songs previously released such as tidal wave and sunburn, as well as from the new material on the DIVE album.
—Eric Fuller, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
The newsroom was rocked by a tidal wave of resignations from columnists and cancellations from digital subscribers, who expressed anger and dismay that the venerable, Pulitzer Prize-winning news organization had abandoned its role in standing up to the threat described by Woodward and Bernstein.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidal wave
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This put heavy stresses on the rotors, snapping off all four of them and tearing one away so violently that there was a power surge which knocked out communications.David Szondy, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
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The surge has led some to suspect that organized cryptocurrency mining – sucking away huge amounts of power – has played a part in the outages in Iran.Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2024
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No tsunami is currently heading toward California, and the tsunami warning issued after Thursday's earthquake has been officially canceled.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, briefly prompting a tsunami warning and leaving residents rattled from Southern Oregon to the San Joaquin Valley in California.Jesus Jiménez, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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But while this award was received with a swell of enthusiasm back in West Africa, virtually no one in the U.S. had ever written about him or his family’s astonishing legacy.Eliot Stein, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2024
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Yet, amid this rising swell, Greenland offers a stark contrast.Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
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Smoke billows during Israeli shelling on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila.Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, 15 Oct. 2024
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Just like the updrafts, this feeds the fire with fresh, oxygenated air; unlike updrafts, downbursts cause gusts that billow out away from the center of the fire, leading it to spread rapidly in multiple directions at once.Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
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“Tidal wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidal%20wave. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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