firestorm

See also: fire storm

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Etymology

From fire +‎ storm.

Noun

firestorm (plural firestorms)

  1. A fire whose intensity is greatly increased by inrushing winds.
  2. (figurative) An intense or violent altercation.
    • 2012, Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, page 243:
      In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone. The Annotations to The Kings Cabinet Opened itself depicted the queen as an enemy to king and country: […]
    • 2015 March 4, Jill Jacobs, “Shmuley Boteach isn’t ‘America’s rabbi’”, in The Washington Post‎[1], archived from the original on 29 April 2023:
      This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.

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