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How to pronounce maelstrom in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms vortex, whirlpool
Type of current, stream
Has types charybdis

Examples of maelstrom

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Thus far, however, the megarich have not been unduly perturbed by the maelstrom.
From the washingtontimes.com
The tearing wind wrought a maelstrom of crashing metal and steel in the car park.
From the independent.co.uk
Two women leaned out of an open third-floor window, high above the red maelstrom.
From the philly.com
Russia was swept into a maelstrom of fevered public disputes and wild capitalism.
From the time.com
And they represent a stillness amid the complicated maelstrom of recent events.
From the npr.org
His journey takes him to Jakarta and to the maelstrom of Sukarno's last months.
From the guardian.co.uk
The maelstrom is 1,250 miles across and with clouds traveling 330 miles per hour.
From the washingtonpost.com
The maelstrom tore through New Orleans'flood defences and flooded 80% of the city.
From the newscientist.com
Dancers, puppets and singers thread their way through the maelstrom of his pieces.
From the nzherald.co.nz
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  • A maelstrom is a very powerful whirlpool; a large, swirling body of water. A free vortex, it has considerable downdraft.
  • Maelstrom is a 1992 clone of Asteroids with an improved graphics and interface. Many of Ambrosia's subsequent shareware titles followed in a similar formula.
  • "Maelstrom" is the seventeenth episode of the third season from the science-fiction television series, Battlestar Galactica.
  • Maelstrom is the third book of the Destroyermen series by author Taylor Anderson. In it, the crew of the USS Walker are aided by the Imperial New British Navy. Captain Matthew Reddy, the crew of the Walker and their Lemurian allies, have won their first battle against the Grik. ...
  • Maelstrom is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in Marvel Two-in-One #71 (Jan. 1981), and was created by writer Mark Gruenwald.
  • Ambrosia Software is a predominantly Macintosh software company located in Rochester, New York. Ambrosia produces utilities and games. Its products are distributed as shareware; demo versions can be downloaded and used for up to 30 days.
  • Maelstrom is a dark ride located in the Norway pavilion of the World Showcase at the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Visitors ride boats that are patterned after Viking ships and pass through various scenes with audio-animatronic figures.
  • Maelstru00F6m is a 2000 Canadian film by Quu00E9bu00E9cois writer-director Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josu00E9e Croze as a depressed, alcoholic woman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she believes to have killed in a hit and run accident.