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verb

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Recent Examples of deluge
Noun
Officials caution that the deluge could trigger life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, particularly in areas of higher terrain. Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025 To overwhelmed oncologists confronting a deluge of literature, this might look like salvation. Anna Forsythe, Forbes.com, 2 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
  • Among the schools was TCU, whose players and coaches also wore green ribbons on their lapels at Big 12 Media Days back in July, less than a week after the flood.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • On Tuesday, 85 scientists released a 459-page rebuttal to the DOE report, highlighting a large body of scientific literature pointing to how climate change can exacerbate droughts, floods, crop failures, and other disasters.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When heavy rain occurs, there is a risk of flooding, particularly in low-lying and flood-prone regions.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In the last few years, Beyoncé, Pink, and Noah Kahan, among others, have had concerts canceled or delayed by extreme lightning, rain, or wildfire smoke.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Aamir Quereshi imaged the moon moments before it was engulfed in Earth's shadow over Pakistan, with a razor-thin crescent lit by bright sunlight.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Burmese pythons, which can engulf an entire Presidential golfing party simply by unhinging their (the pythons’) jaws, inhabit the environs of the Gulf of Mexico, and have even been seen swimming offshore.
    Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Flash floods are usually characterized by raging torrents after heavy rains.
    AZCentral.com, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Eight hours of work yield only eight hours of data, a trickle against the torrent that powered language models.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The likelihood of lightning increases as a thunderstorm gets closer and reaches its highest point when the storm is directly overhead.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
  • None of the six summer arrivals have yet taken English football by storm and Wolves needed at least a couple of players who were battle-hardened in the league.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Deluge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deluge. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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