as in turmoil
a disturbed or uneasy state
in a year filled with corporate Sturm und Drang, the company was headed by no fewer than three different CEOs
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Recent Examples of Sturm und Drang
Thanksgiving season offers a respite from this Sturm und Drang.
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MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Nov. 2025
His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
23 Oct. 2025
Yet there has been an asymmetry between the Sturm und Drang of that operation—a midnight raid featured agents rappelling from helicopters onto a South Side apartment building—and its effect.
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Nov. 2025
His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
—
News Desk,
Artforum,
23 Oct. 2025
Yet there has been an asymmetry between the Sturm und Drang of that operation—a midnight raid featured agents rappelling from helicopters onto a South Side apartment building—and its effect.
—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
5 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Sturm und Drang
turmoil
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The landlocked mineral-rich nation is facing one of its deepest political crises in decades as economic turmoil, nationwide protests and a battle over the country’s future threaten to reshape the balance of power in South America.
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Political turmoil intensifies as resignations, Russia’s rising threat and pressure from a skeptical United States leave Britain’s next leader to prove the plan can truly safeguard Europe.
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