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as in flood
a great flow of water or of something that overwhelms
in spring the melting snows usually produce a cataract that inundates the valley
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Moss Rock Preserve in Hoover offers 349 acres complete with waterfalls, large rock outcroppings, and miles of trails.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
20 Apr. 2025 -
Iguaçu Falls is home to one of the tallest waterfalls in the world at more than 250 feet high, and provides a towering barrier between the two nations.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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For more than four decades, the state of the climate has been part of the national conversation—especially when severe weather events linked to a warming world such as droughts, floods, heat waves, and hurricanes occur.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
21 Apr. 2025
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Constructed in the later half of the 19th century, the building has weathered fire, flood, abandonment—and even ghosts.—
Valerie Fraser Luesse,
Southern Living,
21 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Local dive shops run trips to the wreck, where sea turtles mingle with coral, sponges and cascades of colorful fish.—
Marnie Hunter,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Magical Thinking is in part a chronicle of Didion's harrowing first year of widowhood as Quintana succumbed to a cascade of dire illnesses that eventually led to her death in August 2005.—
Heller McAlpin,
NPR,
22 Apr. 2025
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But the two creeks skirting Damascus had already converged in a swollen torrent, swallowing the main road through town.—
Barbara Kingsolver,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2025
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Wolf’s now-legendary 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was not attended by Donald Trump but was attended by his then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, drew a torrent of angry responses — and not all from the right.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Cataract.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cataract. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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