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I had a five-year marriage that ended tumultuously because of my ex-wife having an affair.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2019

His circle of business partners and confidants had shifted tumultuously since his wife, who often guarded his interests, died in 2017.

From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2018

Pierpont processes and never easily explains away the dark impulses of a man who once wrote, “For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can’t beat the nasty side of existence.”

From New York Times • May 23, 2018

After enduring a tumultuously short week, the Rams are aiming for a similar feeling.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2016

One composer who had no qualms about cooperating with the Nazi regime was Carl Orff, whose Carmina Burana had its tumultuously successful premiere in Frankfurt in June 1937.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall