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Recent Examples of drizzly
Downtown is drizzly and deserted, just me and the ungulate locking eyes across a hotel parking lot, two fish out of water.
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Dan Rubinstein, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2025
Thursday will likely dry out again, though it’s slated to be a dreary, drizzly day, albeit with slightly warmer temperatures rising from the 30s on Wednesday to the low 40s by Friday.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2025
Ferrari described the weather in Maranello this week as overcast and drizzly, like in Britain, where Hamilton was born.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2025
It was partially restored in the final minutes devoted to scenes from the actual show, staged under the Alexandre III bridge on a drizzly evening.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
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Dan Rubinstein, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2025
Thursday will likely dry out again, though it’s slated to be a dreary, drizzly day, albeit with slightly warmer temperatures rising from the 30s on Wednesday to the low 40s by Friday.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 10 Feb. 2025
Ferrari described the weather in Maranello this week as overcast and drizzly, like in Britain, where Hamilton was born.
—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2025
It was partially restored in the final minutes devoted to scenes from the actual show, staged under the Alexandre III bridge on a drizzly evening.
—Miles Socha, WWD, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for drizzly
Adjective
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The present-day Affleck and titular accountant from The Accountant 2 seems to briefly reach out and touch the Sad Affleck of days of yore in this final memory, his eyes almost misty and voice quiet.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Today, its entire world has shrunk to the cool, misty canopy of the Alakaʻi Plateau.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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At least there’s a lot of blood, and all of it is the drippy orange-brown stuff that gorehounds have come to see as a mark of integrity rather than the bright red digital garbage that looks all too gross for a very different reason.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
10 Apr. 2025
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Bernhardt, who starts with spray paint on upright canvases, then puts them on the floor and adds watery acrylics, which give her work its drippy panache, chalks it up to plain coincidence, though of course there’s nothing plain about what either of them do.—
Nicole Phelps,
Vogue,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The agency recalled that between 2022 and 2024, around 60% of annual admissions for severe acute malnutrition occurred during the rainy season, meaning that up to 462,000 children could be affected this year if the trend holds.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Areas affected by the Harmattan experience significant dryness, unlike the rainy season when the monsoon wind (from the south) prevails.—
Christophe Lavaysse,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Drizzly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drizzly. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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