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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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as in dry
marked by little or no precipitation or humidity
arid wastelands unfit for human habitation
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Recent Examples of arid
John Aujay set out for what was meant to be a routine training run at the Devil’s Punchbowl—a high-desert nature preserve where the rugged terrain of the San Gabriel Mountains meets the arid edge of the Mojave Desert.
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Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Mar. 2026
The arid countries of the Gulf, including the UAE, are exceptionally dependent on desalination, the process of converting seawater into drinking water.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
Unlike cacti, which store water to survive hot and arid environments, these flowers can exist for long periods of time in seed form in the soil.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
Iran, Bahrain, and other countries across the Gulf rely on desalination plants to sustain populations of millions in arid climates.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 8 Mar. 2026
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Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 21 Mar. 2026
The arid countries of the Gulf, including the UAE, are exceptionally dependent on desalination, the process of converting seawater into drinking water.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 11 Mar. 2026
Unlike cacti, which store water to survive hot and arid environments, these flowers can exist for long periods of time in seed form in the soil.
—Denise Chow, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
Iran, Bahrain, and other countries across the Gulf rely on desalination plants to sustain populations of millions in arid climates.
—Rebecca Schneid, Time, 8 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arid
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Curry is pure entertainment, and the NBA is a little more boring without him.—
Sports Columnist,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Apr. 2026
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One does detect in Iran hawks a kind of 'will to destruction' and hatred of boring, civilized diplomacy.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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Drought conditions are spreading across the region, and much of the Philadelphia area is either abnormally dry or in a moderate drought.—
Tammie Souza,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Pat chicken dry and lightly season with salt.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Apr. 2026
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Collective processes involve tiring negotiations, frequent conflicts, and disappointing compromises, both internally among the team and with external interlocutors and partners.—
Adam Szymczyk,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
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This can occasionally become tiring, and the back half of the record is littered with tracks that work better as gay WrestleMania intros than as actual songs.—
Harry Tafoya,
Pitchfork,
2 Apr. 2026
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Conversely, a dry and thirsty soil bed retains snowmelt come spring, inadvertently allowing for more evaporative loss and water uptake by vegetation, and leaving little for stream flows.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
31 Mar. 2026
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Above and beyond anything else, this is a story of kindness and inclusivity, which everyone’s thirsty for.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2026
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Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2026
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No amount of inner toughness would have convinced a customer to bring in a dusty rug in May 2020.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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In fact, businesses hired workers at their slowest pace since 2011, excluding the onset of the pandemic in 2020.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
3 Apr. 2026
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The area’s large tourist population contributes a constant volume of unfamiliar drivers to already heavily congested roads, with traffic patterns that shift significantly between peak tourist season and the summer months but never truly slow to manageable levels on the area’s major corridors.—
Anton Lucanus
April 3,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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Spring training shifts into high gear this week with the Cubs and White Sox meeting on Friday in a cross-desert classic to start Cactus League play.—
Matt Zahn,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Elsewhere in California, a mandatory wood-burning ban is in force for the South Coast Air Basin—which includes Orange County and non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties—until midnight on Saturday.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2025
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With the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline topping a multiyear high of $4 a gallon, according to AAA, inflation-weary commuters are having a tough time absorbing the energy shock.—
Jessica Guynn,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2026
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Nike’s recovery was already coming at a tough time as a global trade war dented its efforts to improve profitability and drive sales from inflation-weary shoppers.—
Gabrielle Fonrouge,Jessica Golden,Jacob Pramuk,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Arid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arid. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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