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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ground swell
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Monsanto has faced a tidal wave of litigation in recent years over its Roundup product.
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With a population of over 200 million, any news story generates a tidal wave of jokes, many of them very sharp.
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Each has plays — like a slow-roller up the third base line that requires a quick throw across the diamond — that no other position will encounter.
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Today's advanced sun blocking roller shades are designed to do much more than simply protect privacy.
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The brown trout of a lifetime that just sipped your fly can shoot down a riffle and bust that delicate 6-pound tippet.
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Here’s a general guideline of the classification of rapids, according to author I. Herbert Gordon: Class I: Easy, slower water with light riffles.
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Pipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.
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Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.
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“Ground swell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ground%20swell. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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