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turbulent
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  • During the summer months, however, superheated air rises from the scorched earth like bubbles from the bottom of a boiling kettle, rushing heavenward in turbulent convection currents.  (source)
    turbulent = irregular
  • But Nikki's hands were full with her own turbulent high school experience, which was about to come to a close.  (source)
    turbulent = disorderly
  • I wondered how Richard was navigating the turbulent waters between his normal wife and his abnormal parents.  (source)
    turbulent = rough
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  • With his infinite capacity for calming turbulent seas, he could make a rape case as dry as a sermon.  (source)
    turbulent = rough (disturbed)
  • ...the plane hit a small bit of turbulence.  (source)
    turbulence = irregular wind (causing sudden jerks)
  • The first one fell in the yard, exactly where he had aimed, and then the rest of the bombs from his own plane and from the other planes in his flight burst open on the ground in a charge of rapid orange flashes across the tops of the buildings, which collapsed instantly in a vast, churning wave of pink and gray and coal-black smoke that went rolling out turbulently in all directions and quaked convulsively in its bowels as though from great blasts of red and white and golden sheet lightning.†  (source)
  • Hence, too, must flow those tears which a widow sometimes so plentifully sheds over the ashes of a husband with whom she led a life of constant disquiet and turbulency, and whom now she can never hope to torment any more.†  (source)
  • For two hours his mind roiled with turbulent thoughts before he fell into a restless, tortured sleep.  (source)
    turbulent = disturbed and disordered
  • The jolts and rattles of turbulence grow sharper.  (source)
    turbulence = irregular wind
  • The strain broken now, they jabbered turbulently.†  (source)
  • She stared back toward Second Avenue, her dark eyes turbulent.  (source)
    turbulent = disturbed
  • Fast-moving, dark clouds streamed just above her head, blocking the sunlight and obscuring the signs of eddies and turbulence.  (source)
    turbulence = rough water
  • The remorseless sea of turbulently swaying shapes, voices of vengeance, and faces hardened in the furnaces of suffering until the touch of pity could make no mark on them.†  (source)
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