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What is a groundswell?

What is a groundswell? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (nautical) A broad undulation of the open ocean, often as the result of a distant disturbance
  2. (by extension) A broadly-based shifting of public opinion
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A sizeable groundswell picks up over the reef in all but the calmest conditions.
A gentle groundswell was building over the reef and washing well up the rock.
If there was a groundswell of opinion here for regional government then I could see a referendum.
He likes to portray himself as helping to publicize a groundswell of popular discontent at the demise of American manufacturing.
We had to get within 1.5 miles of the reef before we could distinguish the rocks from the groundswell breaking over them.
What is needed is a genuine groundswell of popular opinion against the system.

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