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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 of arid Their trademark triangular signs are ubiquitous in arid regions of the United States, like the Great Basin. River Selby august 25, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2025 Coccidioidomycosis, commonly known as Valley Fever, is caused by the fungus Coccidioides, which exists naturally in the soil of certain arid and semi-arid regions. Matthew Binnicker, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025 Contrary to the arid badlands of Ledi-Geraru today, millions of years ago, the area was a lush, vegetated landscape with rivers and shallow lakes. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025 In dry areas, as temperatures rise, more moisture is pulled from soils and transported away from these arid regions, intensifying droughts. Pedro Dinezio, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for arid
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  • Farming takes so long and is so boring, some of us said.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The Clark County Fire Department said that tunnel boring operations had been temporarily halted at the site pending an ongoing accident investigation.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • After you’re finished cleaning, rinse with water and dry with a microfiber cloth.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Primary bathrooms, where hair and buildup from products like dry shampoo can leave floors a mess, are another high-traffic area of the house that can benefit from regular sweeping.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • With Onum folded into Falcon, logs stop being dusty records and start becoming live intelligence.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • There, water to sustain such a colony may be trapped less than a foot beneath the dusty red surface.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Some common symptoms include the need to pee more frequently, feeling extremely thirsty, having dry and itchy skin, and getting dark, velvety patches on the skin.
    Sherri Gordon, Health, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The nursery has cleared water-thirsty plants and planted 100,000 indigenous trees since 2012.
    Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • Without a strict hierarchy or single decision-maker, our process can sometimes be slow, messy, or even tiring.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The film is a mess, opaque in its argument and tiring in its effortful weirdness, and yet in its best moments has a hypnotic pull.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • Biden, who ended his bid for a second White House term 107 days before last year's election, has been relatively slow to move on presidential library planning compared with most of his recent predecessors.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Sep. 2025
  • With Parkinson’s, doctors implant electrodes in the brain that produce electrical impulses to disrupt the abnormal signals that cause tremors, stiffness and slow movement.
    Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2025
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  • While Schneider was expressing his feelings about the unknown state of Judge’s normally rocket arm, the Yankees seemed weary about answering these kind of inquiries.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Where Shy was the subject of Porter’s slender book — which is really more of a beat-poetry day-in-the-life monologue — the focus shifts here to the weary headmaster who’s been fighting on the students’ behalf all these years.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
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  • The program includes guided indoor cardio workouts, various levels of drills and interval training, and running trails through the surrounding semi-desert wilderness that range from three to nine miles.
    Joe Yogerst, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Cocktail grapefruit grows wherever conventional grapefruit grows, although fruit quality is best, as with grapefruit generally, in desert or semi-desert conditions.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Arid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arid. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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