as in surviving
to come safely through
we've weathered worse crises, and so we'll survive this one
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Recent Examples of weathering
Households, meanwhile, are weathering a surge in prices as a result of an oil shock set off by the Iran war.
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
The results suggest that Apple is weathering shortages of memory chips and other components — at least for now.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
Despite the apparent unpopularity of warming ties with Israel, the pro-Western government of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan believes that weathering the backlash is a fair trade-off in its quest to reinvent the country’s foreign policy.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Taking time before a storm arrives to unplug the right appliances and household items can be the difference between weathering the storm safely and thousands of dollars in damages.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
The results suggest that Apple is weathering shortages of memory chips and other components — at least for now.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2026
Despite the apparent unpopularity of warming ties with Israel, the pro-Western government of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan believes that weathering the backlash is a fair trade-off in its quest to reinvent the country’s foreign policy.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Taking time before a storm arrives to unplug the right appliances and household items can be the difference between weathering the storm safely and thousands of dollars in damages.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weathering
surviving
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Nearly all of the surviving health-care facilities in the northernmost area fell on the wrong side of the partition.—
Clayton Dalton,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Based on the remnants of the three surviving original examples, Todeschini’s weapon combines an incendiary mixture wrapped in flammable cloth that is then encased in pitch.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
14 May 2026
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“Weathering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weathering. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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