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- noun Plural form of
groundswell .
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Examples
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Such groundswells of protest should happen more often, privacy advocates say.
Child Identity Theft Takes Advantage Of Kids' Unused Social Security Numbers 2011
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The opposition civil war alliance in 1990s Tajikistan and its failure to turn that republic in either a representative democracy or a sharia-ruled Islamic state was the perfect avenue to conflate and thus deny post-Soviet Central Asia's two most vibrant, yet entirely ideologically divergent, human groundswells.
Derek Flood: From Totalitarianism to Turbines: The Unending Struggle for Power in Central Asia 2010
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In the face of these groundswells, at the most extreme, battles and treaties and the deeds of 'great men' wither into transience.
The Great Battle Against Islam Thubron, Colin 2009
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I believe we need to support groundswells of grassroots politicians.
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I am not hearing or seeing any populist groundswells of racism, no systematic, secret stirrings in the Spanish moss drenched bayou country.
Stephen Chao: Will Someone Please Put a Little More Energy into the N-Word? 2008
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Same with Health care, no real ‘groundswells’ of change.
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But with the economy in a swoon, consumers in a funk and prices in ascent, isolated grumblings are coalescing into groundswells.
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This incident has generated groundswells of demonstrations in the area.
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This incident has generated groundswells of demonstrations in the area.
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Even during the Second World War, when there was a supposed National Coalition Government, Churchill and more often his hapless predecessor Neville "Peace In Our Time" Chamberlain fell foul to unexpected groundswells of opposition.
Archive 2005-11-01 Alistair Myles 2005
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