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By the time the conventions roll around, the Supreme Court†™ s end-of-term flurry is largely forgotten.

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  1. noun A brief, light snowfall.
  2. noun A sudden gust of wind.
  3. noun A stirring mass, as of leaves or dust; a shower.

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gust ·  spurt ·  whirl ·  swirl ·  barrage ·  flutter ·  whirlwind ·  outburst ·  stir ·  squall ·  tumult ·  surge

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flurry:   flurries
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  1. Perhaps from flurr, to scatter.

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  1. Origin uncertain; cf. Norwegian dial. flurutt, rough, shaggy, disordered, Swedish dial. flurig, disordered, dissolute, overloaded, flur, face, head, disordered hair, whim, caprice. In the sense of a gust of wind, cf. flaw, which may have affected this sense.
  2. from flurry, n.
 

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/ˈfləri/
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