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as in boring
causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest an arid speech about duty and responsibility

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Recent Examples on the Web People in arid regions can do the same in their own backyards. Jude Coleman, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024 Pulling up on a dirt road after driving down an arid river bed, one feels transported out of overdeveloped Cabo and its strip of hotels into a secret world that’s slower and prettier and nicer. Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024 Imagine the best of California and Colorado wine countries combined into a single dreamscape of lakeside vineyards and orchards, with rolling foothills covered in sagebrush and pine set against a backdrop of arid mountain peaks. Jayme Moye, Outside Online, 4 Oct. 2024 The start of domestication corresponds with a period of global cooling, when droughts in South America created large swaths of arid grasslands across a previously wet, forested landscape. Byariana Remmel, science.org, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for arid 

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“Arid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arid. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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