Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
hurricane .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Like that earlier flu, avian flu unleashes an unusual hurricanelike storm of immune-system signaling proteins called cytokines, which signal the immune system to combat microbial invaders.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Like that earlier flu, avian flu unleashes an unusual hurricanelike storm of immune-system signaling proteins called cytokines, which signal the immune system to combat microbial invaders.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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For the most part, though, Palwick doesn't spend a great deal of time foregrounding her SF elements; the only real sense of the effect global warning has had on this world, for example, is a massive, hurricanelike storm that opens the novel, and the main evidence of terrorism is a particularly harrowing episode in which a character is dismembered by an army of reprogrammed service robots.
Bookish Bliss Susan Palwick 2007
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For the most part, though, Palwick doesn't spend a great deal of time foregrounding her SF elements; the only real sense of the effect global warning has had on this world, for example, is a massive, hurricanelike storm that opens the novel, and the main evidence of terrorism is a particularly harrowing episode in which a character is dismembered by an army of reprogrammed service robots.
Archive 2007-05-01 Susan Palwick 2007
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National weather service warns of hurricanelike conditions.
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National weather service warns of hurricanelike conditions.
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National weather service warns of hurricanelike conditions.
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National weather service warns of hurricanelike conditions.
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National weather service warns of hurricanelike conditions.
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National weather service warns of hurricanelike conditions.
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