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Recent Examples of sandstorm
In the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, the famous skies were veiled by a freak sandstorm from the Sahara.
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IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
Haboob is an Arabic word for a violent dust storm or sandstorm.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Sand Vision is made to give the driver better visibility during a sandstorm.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
Blending documentary and fiction, the film tells the story of Mongolian herders Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg who make the difficult decision to leave their homelands after the arrival of a powerful and destructive sandstorm, a situation made worse by the climate crisis.
—Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2025
Haboob is an Arabic word for a violent dust storm or sandstorm.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Sand Vision is made to give the driver better visibility during a sandstorm.
—New Atlas, 15 Aug. 2025
Blending documentary and fiction, the film tells the story of Mongolian herders Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg who make the difficult decision to leave their homelands after the arrival of a powerful and destructive sandstorm, a situation made worse by the climate crisis.
—Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandstorm
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Flooding in Independence The sinkhole made its first appearance in July 2025, during a series of heavy rainstorms in the Kansas City metro.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
11 Feb. 2026
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Fort Lauderdale lost its City Hall when a historic rainstorm flooded the basement in April 2023.—
Susannah Bryan,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Feb. 2026
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Spring is the perfect time to refresh your bedding, and in the South, that means choosing lighter sheets and blankets to stay cool once warm weather returns.—
Caley Sturgill,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
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The agency routinely monitors weather conditions along the rocket’s path, in case an emergency on ascent requires the Dragon capsule carrying the astronauts to separate from the rocket and land along the East Coast.—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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Think of summer weather and the difference between a shower (generally short lived period of rain, not generally accompanied by strong winds) and a thunderstorm (intense downpour and often accompanied by strong winds).—
Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Additionally, without a reliable stake, trellis, or cage, the winds from a strong spring or summer thunderstorm can blow your tomato plants over, breaking them at the stem and ending their season.—
Kerry Michaels,
The Spruce,
5 Feb. 2026
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In December, while refining his routine for his first Olympic Games, in Milan, the 21-year-old figure skater landed seven quadruple jumps in competition, spinning like a weather vane in a windstorm.—
Stephanie Bai,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2026
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Her management team cooked up a story about her getting hit by a car door in a windstorm.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Feb. 2026
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The creation became the center of a Hollywood hailstorm in late 2025 after Van der Velden suggested on a panel in Zurich that she was set to sign with an agency.—
Eline Van der Velden,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2026
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This is why severe hailstorms are more likely to happen in the spring or summer, when there’s extra energy in the air.—
Chris Baraniuk,
Wired News,
10 Dec. 2025
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The whole experience tasted of the sea and the end of summer, punctuated by soft little cloudbursts on the palate.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Rockies’ epic drought ended with a cloudburst of terrific pitching by Tanner Gordon and one of the feel-good moments of the season coming from a most unlikely source.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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In a sudden forecast turnabout, metro Detroit went from April thundershowers and tornado warnings one day to a warm, sunny day the next, with temperatures in the upcoming week expected to reach the 70s.—
Frank Witsil,
Detroit Free Press,
6 Apr. 2023
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Speaking under dark clouds minutes after a thundershower drenched onlookers, Ms. Truss leaned on the weather as a metaphor for the economic challenges facing Britain.—
Stephen Castle,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2022
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Many of his song lyrics criticize the ineffective response by the government in Puerto Rico to crises like the hurricanes that have pummeled the island and caused island-wide blackouts in recent years.—
Kiki Intarasuwan,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Whenever these urgent hedge-fund risk-reduction events occurs, brokerage houses try to handicap how much more repositioning might be necessary to bring their posture back toward a neutral footing, like different hurricane models trying to forecast a storm’s path.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Sandstorm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandstorm. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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