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His fingerprints are all over the 21st-century Big Inventive Novel, with its sentient raindrops (Elif Shafak), its melodramatic families (Kiran Desai), its metamorphoses of race (Mohsin Hamid) and history (Marlon James).—Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025 When raindrops hit the floating dielectric film, the water’s incompressibility and high surface tension provide the mechanical strength needed to support the impact.—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025 The room that most rivals raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens on the list of favorite things is the Santa Suite.—David Dickstein, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025 Northern Arizona will see raindrops instead of snowflakes, as overnight lows in Flagstaff will remain in the 40s and 50s over the next few days.—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for raindrop
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of raindrop was
before the 12th century
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