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verb

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Recent Examples of deluge
Noun
What remains unknown is to what extent real estate disclosures compel sellers to preemptively improve wildfire resilience — or how much buyers are paying attention to the warnings amid a deluge of disclosures that accompany the sale of a house. Bloomberg, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025 The deluge of questions about California’s tax system forces Dunn, the call center’s chief, to reassign agents three months of the year, taking them away from other work collecting revenue for California. William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
Christian Fell, 25, stood for hours on the narrow top of a meter box, barely wide enough for both hands, to survive floodwaters that deluged his grandmother’s home. Nbc News, NBC news, 7 July 2025 Though no one died from the 2 feet of rain that deluged Fort Lauderdale in a single day in April two years ago, the relentless rain forced hundreds to flee to Red Cross shelters, covered airport runways, filled the tunnel that runs under the New River and turned downtown streets into raging rivers. Denise Hruby july 7, Miami Herald, 7 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for deluge
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deluge
Noun
  • The text records royal decrees including tax relief during poor Nile floods; donations to temples; the creation of a new priestly office; a festival tied to the heliacal rising of Sirius; and a calendar reform introducing a leap day every four years.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Take the necessary actions to protect flood-prone property.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The National Weather Service issued a hazardous weather outlook for Saturday afternoon and evening, warning of storms with heavy rain, small hail, and wind gusts up to 40 mph in parts of north-central Colorado.
    Marco Cummings, Denver Post, 14 Sep. 2025
  • If only this car had arrived a few months later during one of our brief bouts of winter rain.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But as her due date grew closer, fighting in her neighborhood escalated, engulfing the entire village.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The docuseries initially picked up steam after debuting at SXSW in 2024 and was engulfed by Starz.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But then the torrent of anonymous text messages that would put their relationship to the test began flooding in.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Polish airspace was violated by at least 19 Russian drones overnight, the country's prime minister said, in a torrent of activity that triggered a response from the NATO country's air force, which scrambled and downed several of the drones.
    Will Gretsky, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The next name on the storm list for eastern Pacific systems is Mario.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • While snowfall totals may not meet the threshold for a full storm warning, the advisory signals conditions likely to cause significant travel disruptions, especially during peak commute hours.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Deluge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deluge. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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