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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ground swell
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Seeking to combat the crack-cocaine trade that ran rampant in cities across America, the two bills caused a tidal wave in African-American communities—creating a crack-cocaine sentencing disparity, skyrocketing mass incarceration, and disappearing a generation of people—all because of crack.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2024 -
Then one day in 2019, her son Huxley disappeared from videos altogether, prompting a tidal wave of questions from fans and eventually sparking a scandal that ended her career online entirely.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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Hobby The central kitchen remains a very simple space, featuring a slide-out 39-L electric cool box, sink plumbed to a 25-L fresh water tank via submersible pump, waste water roller tank and worktop.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
23 Jan. 2025
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One of Vogue’s favorite facial tools for a glowing, sculpted complexion, the angled roller sculpts the cheekbones and jawline.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
20 Jan. 2025
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On the water, target current breaks, pools, and deep riffles where trout will wait and ambush their food.—
Max Inchausti,
Field & Stream,
12 June 2024
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Sandbars and rock bars and gravel bars could be broken down into a full taxonomy describing their size and shape and orientation: chains and traps, riffles and reefs.—
Boyce Upholt,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 June 2024
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Does the little surge of Trump dances across sports represent a wave, or at least a wavelet, of athletes declaring their allegiances for the President-elect?—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2024
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And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN,
1 Mar. 2024
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“Ground swell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground%20swell. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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