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But the 51-year-old said: "At that moment, everyone says I seemed very calm, but actually, storms were raging inside me," said Dikec.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

Relief crews and military aid units were trying to reach Acapulco and smaller towns in Guerrero state, but landslides and debris blocked major highways, airports were shuttered and rivers were raging over their banks.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

Ukrainian General Oleksander Tarnavskyi, writing on Telegram, said battles were raging throughout the sector, with his forces repelling 27 enemy attacks.

From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2023

And wildfires were raging in southern Europe and the American West.

From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2022

Tuberculosis and double pneumonia were raging in those days, and Mameh had a great fear one of her kids would catch that, because in Europe one of her brothers died in a flu epidemic.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride