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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By 1978, Holocaust remembrance was becoming a national tidal wave .
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It was raining, as advertised, at a volume that seemed more appropriate to a tidal wave .
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She is suddenly engulfed by a tidal wave of self-loathing.
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The stunned production team were dealing with the tidal wave as best they could when an awful realization dawned.
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Then the tide turned, slowly at first, but consolidating into something close to a tidal wave .