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UK
/tˈɜːmɔɪl/
]
[ US /ˈtɝˌmɔɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝˌmɔɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- disturbance usually in protest
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a violent disturbance
the convulsions of the stock market - violent agitation
How To Use turmoil In A Sentence
- The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
- They do not have the same intricate inner workings of women and they are not unfathomable pools of emotions swirling effervescently in a bubbling turmoil of feelings and needs.
- Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
- At first sight, the economy hit the August turmoil in fine fettle.
- With the current turmoil in the US economy one wonders if people will be quite so free with their money on luxuries this year.
- His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
- Was this the beginning of a turnaround for a career that has stalled on the back of personal turmoil and a technique that has deserted him? Times, Sunday Times
- Soon, however, social turmoil swept the country, weakening the monarch's effectiveness as an arbiter of political disputes, and exacerbating communal violence among Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa, the three major ethnic communities.
- Gold futures turned positive Wednesday, bucking the second day of sliding commodities, as it reassumed its safe-haven identity amid turmoil in Europe. Gold Swoons, Then Rises on Risk Worries
- The voters may see the implications of global turmoil through a glass darkly. Times, Sunday Times