typhoon

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Recent Examples of typhoon The storm has weakened slightly since Tuesday night, when it was categorized as a super typhoon with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph, equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane. Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024 Unlike 20 years ago, when the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004 killed more than 200,000 people, 2024 was a year of mounting casualties from typhoons, floods, heat waves and droughts. Curtis S. Chin and Jose B. Collazo, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2024 Super Typhoon Kong-rey could sweep ‘almost the whole’ island Kong-rey is the third typhoon to make landfall on Taiwan this year after Krathon and Gaemi. Eric Cheung, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024 The typhoon caused significant damage across the city, knocking down more than 10,000 trees and leaving 30,000 households without electricity. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 16 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for typhoon

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“Typhoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/typhoon. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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