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Recent Examples of surges
Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2026
Attendees reported hearing gunshots and witnessing fights, leading to panic, chaos and crowd surges, police said.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Home prices and rents did jump – but those leaps were below national surges.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
Alongside this wave of development, Inglewood remains a historic Black community navigating rapid change and rising costs as development surges.
—Kaila Yu, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
Sudden power surges or lightning strikes can cause damage to electronic devices and even become a fire hazard.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
Brent crude jumped 51% in March, one of the largest one‑month oil price surges on record.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
The Lyrids can sometimes produce surges of up to 100 meteors per hour, but Lunsford says with about a 60-year period between these particularly active outbursts the next one isn’t expected until 2040.
—Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
In the fall of 2022, hurricanes Ian and Nicole struck Florida’s east coast within six weeks of one another, bringing intense rainfall, storm surges and coastal erosion.
—Hannah V. Herrero, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
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How Power Surges Damage Appliances and Electronics Understanding how power surges can damage your electronics provides a basic framework for planning preventive measures to minimize the risk in your home.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Apr. 2026
Attendees reported hearing gunshots and witnessing fights, leading to panic, chaos and crowd surges, police said.
—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Home prices and rents did jump – but those leaps were below national surges.
—Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026
Alongside this wave of development, Inglewood remains a historic Black community navigating rapid change and rising costs as development surges.
—Kaila Yu, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026
Sudden power surges or lightning strikes can cause damage to electronic devices and even become a fire hazard.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
Brent crude jumped 51% in March, one of the largest one‑month oil price surges on record.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
The Lyrids can sometimes produce surges of up to 100 meteors per hour, but Lunsford says with about a 60-year period between these particularly active outbursts the next one isn’t expected until 2040.
—Avni Trivedi, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026
In the fall of 2022, hurricanes Ian and Nicole struck Florida’s east coast within six weeks of one another, bringing intense rainfall, storm surges and coastal erosion.
—Hannah V. Herrero, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for surges
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Financially dependent on her parents throughout her youth and confused by waves of calm or small kindnesses, Gross wrestled with distancing herself for some time before cutting contact with her parents and brothers as an adult.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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The lapping waves that arrive shortly thereafter are an alarming detour, but their presence quickly feels normal.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
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Christie regularly gushes over Thornton on Instagram.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
20 Apr. 2026
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And the casting of her onscreen son could not have been better, the actress gushes.—
Kathleen Perricone,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Mar. 2026
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This greatly increases the surface area available for electrochemical reactions and enables faster charging and discharging while maintaining high power density in an extremely small footprint.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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Across the spectrum, increases to bonus payouts ranged from 6% to 43%, with a median of 13%, and an average increase of 12%.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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Less than a day earlier, astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen had been plucked from 3-foot swells by helicopters and transported them roughly one mile to the USS Murtha.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
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Only the swells from the clusters of UConn fans could be heard by the end of their 71-62 victory in the national semifinals.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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Only our cable streams through the TV, meaning that the cable company can cheap out and not send us another remote with numbers.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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As a result, AI music streams account for a small share of Deezer usage, hovering around 1–3 percent.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 Apr. 2026
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Rare earth demand rises The ubiquity of rare earth elements means demand keeps rising.—
Anton L. Delgado,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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From the fiery lake of damnation, Lucifer rises as Satan to seduce humanity’s first parents, Adam and Eve, in the flawless Garden of Eden, triggering the Fall of Man and the loss of Paradise itself.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
29 Apr. 2026
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This matches the only other blue ring in the solar system, namely Saturn's E-ring that is produced by cryovolcanism on Saturn's moon Enceladus, which squirts geysers of water into space.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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Block squirts out a capturing of Dreyfuss as a fuzzy-haired neurotic ping-ponging mood changes around the set.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
10 Mar. 2026
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The main reason this position group jumps up so much is Georgia transfer Dominick Kelly, who provides key depth.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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As a viewer, your mind instantly jumps back to the pre-Jackson 5 brothers practicing in their living room in Gary, Indiana, in the 1960s.—
Keith Murphy,
VIBE.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Surges.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surges. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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