tumultuousness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tumultuousness
Noun
  • The win halted a recent slide in the Argentine peso after weeks of financial market turbulence.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
  • His government has also posted a fiscal surplus and pushed through broad deregulation measures — a dramatic reversal after years of economic turbulence.
    Christina Shaw, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Each storm sparked a wave of scientific inquiry, until, in the early twentieth century, scientists finally understood why electrifying societies had grown precariously vulnerable to environmental upheavals on the Sun.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • With such upheaval in the front line, some teething problems are understandable.
    Jamie Barton, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Regardless of where the fan base fell in its opinion of Billups, there has been a palpable excitement for this season.
    Jason Quick, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Halloween is just around the corner, and excitement is building across the state.
    Brandi D. Addison, Cincinnati Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Together, the insolvency countdown and agency tumult have shaken public faith.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The tumult of the window and the team’s start to the season exacerbated the mood.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Actual Vancouverites barely stood by to watch the commotion.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On the other side, there was just as much commotion, but these conversations were almost hysterical — and far uglier.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The abrupt departure stunned the crowd, prompting confusion both in the audience and among his bandmates.
    Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Teddy’s reasoning is a confusion of save-the-world alarmism, garden-variety derangement, unhealed trauma, and single-minded revenge.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The hour-and-a-half-long documentary unraveled Lorincz’s building agitation with neighborhood kids playing in a field near her home through 911 calls, deputy body camera video and detective interviews.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • On top of that, the agitation and tumbling in your washer and dryer will worsen shrinking.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The third one is transgenerational trauma; the fact that this sense of dispossession, this sense of insecurity, this sense of unsettlement is transferred from generation to generation.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
  • The first sign of unsettlement is when Carl starts bringing mismatched chairs to Jody’s shop, where the play takes place, claiming his own apartment is too small.
    ELISABETH VINCENTELLI, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
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“Tumultuousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tumultuousness. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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