Turbulent
adjective
Moving in an irregular or violent way.
The airplane ride was turbulent due to the storm.
Often appears as...
- turbulent waters
- turbulent winds
adjective
Full of disagreements or sudden changes of mood.
The country was in a turbulent period during the political transition.
Often appears as...
- turbulent times
- turbulent period
adjective
Causing disturbance or confusion.
Her turbulent thoughts kept her awake at night.
Often appears as...
- turbulent emotions
- turbulent thoughts
adjective
Moving in an irregular or violent way.
The airplane ride was turbulent due to the storm.
Often appears as...
- turbulent waters
- turbulent winds
adjective
Full of disagreements or sudden changes of mood.
The country was in a turbulent period during the political transition.
Often appears as...
- turbulent times
- turbulent period
adjective
Causing disturbance or confusion.
Her turbulent thoughts kept her awake at night.
Often appears as...
- turbulent emotions
- turbulent thoughts
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Motion Related
Use 'turbulent' for unpredictable, violent movement, often related to nature or travel.
The turbulent seas made the ferry ride especially challenging.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Personal
'Turbulent' describes the movement itself, not someone's reaction to it.
Despite the pilot's efforts, the turbulent air shook the aircraft.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Turbulent' implies a strong intensity that could lead to discomfort or danger.
Tourists should avoid the turbulent rapids during the rainy season.
Pro Tip 1/3Motion Related
Use 'turbulent' for unpredictable, violent movement, often related to nature or travel.
The turbulent seas made the ferry ride especially challenging.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Personal
'Turbulent' describes the movement itself, not someone's reaction to it.
Despite the pilot's efforts, the turbulent air shook the aircraft.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Turbulent' implies a strong intensity that could lead to discomfort or danger.
Tourists should avoid the turbulent rapids during the rainy season.
Pro Tip 1/3Motion Related
Use 'turbulent' for unpredictable, violent movement, often related to nature or travel.
The turbulent seas made the ferry ride especially challenging.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Personal
'Turbulent' describes the movement itself, not someone's reaction to it.
Despite the pilot's efforts, the turbulent air shook the aircraft.
Pro Tip 3/3Intensity
'Turbulent' implies a strong intensity that could lead to discomfort or danger.
Tourists should avoid the turbulent rapids during the rainy season.
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
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How to make a profit...
It's a vast, impersonal, uncaring force of nature that is not affected by our wishes or desires. So the best that our little savings accounts or retirement accounts can do is to try to catch some waves in the good cycles and hope that we don't get inundated in the turbulent ones,
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How megacities are...
towards the world's most turbulent region. But we know from history that more connectivity is the only way to bring about stability in the long run. Because we know that in region after region, connectivity is the new reality. Cities and countries are learning to aggregate
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Resilient people,...
good morning we live in an increasingly turbulent world where we need to adapt be able to cope and transform to rising shocks and stresses no where is the ability to build resilience as good as among the people living in the harshest environments in the world the semi-arid
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Abseiling Down the...
directly beneath me is dropping straight into the funnel it's broke turbulent it would be like dropping into the world work world hopeful suicide it was going to have a look down there and get a better view of it over yeah you know what as well from this angle I can see a
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The Supernova Experiment...
light and you can see there's all these turbulent Eddie's where gas is turning over from these instabilities you have in the explosion this is exactly like what we see in the modern simulations of supernovae in real life things are really messy and turbulent and mixed up
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Paddy Ashdown: The...
and the new look of the world, the new powers that exist in the world, are beginning to take form. And these are -- and we see it very clearly today -- nearly always highly turbulent times, highly difficult times, and all too often very bloody times.
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Eddie Obeng: Smart...
They're called eddies. Not me. And they're violently dispersing the ink so that it actually gets diluted out, and the color's gone. What's happened in this world of pipe is somebody has flipped it. They've changed the rules from laminar to turbulent.
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Turbulence: One of the...
Most scientists think that getting there will rely on statistics and increased computing power. Extremely high-speed computer simulations of turbulent flows could help us identify patterns that could lead to a theory
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Dalia Mogahed: The...
went up significantly. And this hope, this optimism, endured a year of turbulent transition. One reason that there's this optimism is because, contrary to what many people have said,
Video examples
The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
Video examples
How to make a profit...
It's a vast, impersonal, uncaring force of nature that is not affected by our wishes or desires. So the best that our little savings accounts or retirement accounts can do is to try to catch some waves in the good cycles and hope that we don't get inundated in the turbulent ones,
Video examples
How megacities are...
towards the world's most turbulent region. But we know from history that more connectivity is the only way to bring about stability in the long run. Because we know that in region after region, connectivity is the new reality. Cities and countries are learning to aggregate
Video examples
Resilient people,...
good morning we live in an increasingly turbulent world where we need to adapt be able to cope and transform to rising shocks and stresses no where is the ability to build resilience as good as among the people living in the harshest environments in the world the semi-arid
Video examples
Abseiling Down the...
directly beneath me is dropping straight into the funnel it's broke turbulent it would be like dropping into the world work world hopeful suicide it was going to have a look down there and get a better view of it over yeah you know what as well from this angle I can see a
Video examples
The Supernova Experiment...
light and you can see there's all these turbulent Eddie's where gas is turning over from these instabilities you have in the explosion this is exactly like what we see in the modern simulations of supernovae in real life things are really messy and turbulent and mixed up
Video examples
Paddy Ashdown: The...
and the new look of the world, the new powers that exist in the world, are beginning to take form. And these are -- and we see it very clearly today -- nearly always highly turbulent times, highly difficult times, and all too often very bloody times.
Video examples
Eddie Obeng: Smart...
They're called eddies. Not me. And they're violently dispersing the ink so that it actually gets diluted out, and the color's gone. What's happened in this world of pipe is somebody has flipped it. They've changed the rules from laminar to turbulent.
Video examples
Turbulence: One of the...
Most scientists think that getting there will rely on statistics and increased computing power. Extremely high-speed computer simulations of turbulent flows could help us identify patterns that could lead to a theory
Video examples
Dalia Mogahed: The...
went up significantly. And this hope, this optimism, endured a year of turbulent transition. One reason that there's this optimism is because, contrary to what many people have said,
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Quote examples
Mike Mills
American Musician
To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.
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Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Consistently playing suited connectors like 8c-7c for raises and reraises will cause big chip swings. If that's what you want, well, strap on your seatbelt, because you've got a turbulent ride ahead of you!
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Washington Irving
American Writer
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
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Jimmy Carter
American President
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
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Charles Trevelyan
British Public Servant
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
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Natalie Cole
American Musician
I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.
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Andy Grove
Hungarian Businessman
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
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Ehud Barak
Israeli Statesman
A strong, responsible Israel can become a stabilizer in such a turbulent region.
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George Michael
British Musician
The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
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Kevin Brady
American Politician
This turbulent world is far from a perfect place.
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Mike Mills
American Musician
To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.
Quote examples
Phil Hellmuth
American Celebrity
Consistently playing suited connectors like 8c-7c for raises and reraises will cause big chip swings. If that's what you want, well, strap on your seatbelt, because you've got a turbulent ride ahead of you!
Quote examples
Washington Irving
American Writer
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Quote examples
Jimmy Carter
American President
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Quote examples
Charles Trevelyan
British Public Servant
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Quote examples
Natalie Cole
American Musician
I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.
Quote examples
Andy Grove
Hungarian Businessman
So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.
Quote examples
Ehud Barak
Israeli Statesman
A strong, responsible Israel can become a stabilizer in such a turbulent region.
Quote examples
George Michael
British Musician
The truth is my love life has been a lot more turbulent than I have let on.
Quote examples
Kevin Brady
American Politician
This turbulent world is far from a perfect place.
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