aftershock

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Recent Examples of aftershock When an aftershock hit about an hour later, the tableau briefly reformed. Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025 What Happens Next At least eight aftershocks were recorded following the main quake, Newsweek reported on Monday. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Apr. 2025 The 1950s Nagasaki scenes are haunted by the aftershocks and trauma of the war, though the atomic bombing is never depicted directly. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2025 Experts warn the situation is even more concerning because, on top of everything, land across Iran is sinking at a worrying rate, potentially worsening the impact of earthquakes and aftershocks. Sanam Mahoozi, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aftershock
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Noun
  • In Kevin Day’s case, the initial sense of shock eventually gave way to tears in, of all places, his local supermarket.
    Stuart James, New York Times, 7 June 2025
  • Narrating what happened with the boy in the autopsy room turned out to be wholly different from experiencing it; the riptide shock of that moment slowed to a largo of painful excavation.
    Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Fils asked the French faithful, when former player Marion Bartoli put a microphone to his lips at the center of the court in the afterglow of a resurrection, measured by a 7-6(3), 7-6(4), 2-6, 0-6, 6-4 scoreline.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • Manalapan isn’t the only place basking in the afterglow of Palm Beach’s prestige.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 May 2025
Noun
  • In 2023, powerful quakes killed more than 53,000 people in southeastern Turkey.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2025
  • What the quake failed to do, the violence is now doing: marginalizing Port-au-Prince.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But the repercussions could extend beyond the Homer Glen road widening project, Theodore said.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
  • This could have repercussions for the hardware Apple releases, too.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • The largest foreshock was a magnitude 3.3, Lucy Jones, a visiting associate in geophysics and founder of the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society, said.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • It had been preceded by a 3.3-magnitude foreshock on Sunday, seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones told KCBS.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trade policy, however, is a complex game, with the potential for fallout on companies, consumers, investors, and the economy as a whole.
    Harry Kraemer, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
  • New data due this week should give Wall Street and the Federal Reserve a better sense of the unfolding fallout of Trump’s policies, including two new consumer surveys, a revised estimate of economic growth in the first quarter and fresh figures on consumer spending.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • As with Lionel, David’s trauma is buried deep—his post-war shell shock shown only through a barely perceptible tremor in his hands; his hopelessness only really glimpsed in one close-up.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 May 2025
  • Cristina puts her career in jeopardy to help Burke hide his hand tremor after he’s shot.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • His grand denouement is meant to be a catharsis for a deliberately corrective slice of emotional history.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
  • But some fans expressed their disappointment that the grand denouement – the identity of mysterious villain ‘H’ – failed to live up to audience expectations.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 5 Apr. 2025

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