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Use "surges" in a sentence
"McCain surges ahead in the polls based on his choice of a trans-gendered running mate?"
"And they seem to often fall vicitim to short-term surges, probably as a result of their weighting problem."
"I would think one could safely conclude that if this overwhelmed the levees (albeit in a novel way), then it is probably safe to say that a direct hit with 20-30 ft storm surges from a cat 5 hurricane would also have caused the levees to fail."