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also drouths
as in shortages
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
there's been a drought of good movies this year
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Recent Examples of droughts
The ocean anomaly has also been associated with extreme weather events, including droughts; warmer ocean temperatures can also generally help hurricanes develop more rapidly, and exacerbate fires, says Pastelok.
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Simmone Shah, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
California faces a loss of hydropower during droughts.
—Julia Simon, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
The driest state in the country is often hit by droughts, but that hasn’t stopped developers from buying up ranches and farmland to build homes or businesses.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
Heat waves are lasting longer, rain comes in floods sandwiched between droughts, and new pests are suddenly abundant and chomping on what were your garden’s most trouble-free plants.
—Mike Irvine, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
Miami is experiencing one of the biggest droughts of funding and resources for film and television professionals.
—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
The warming temperatures have been linked to greater rain in hurricanes, longer droughts and more extreme rainfall events around the globe.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
California salmon have survived droughts for millennia.
—Scott Artis, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Notable droughts have occurred in 1904, 1930-31, 1941, 1954, 1966, and 1988.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Simmone Shah, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
California faces a loss of hydropower during droughts.
—Julia Simon, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
The driest state in the country is often hit by droughts, but that hasn’t stopped developers from buying up ranches and farmland to build homes or businesses.
—Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
Heat waves are lasting longer, rain comes in floods sandwiched between droughts, and new pests are suddenly abundant and chomping on what were your garden’s most trouble-free plants.
—Mike Irvine, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2025
Miami is experiencing one of the biggest droughts of funding and resources for film and television professionals.
—Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
The warming temperatures have been linked to greater rain in hurricanes, longer droughts and more extreme rainfall events around the globe.
—Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
California salmon have survived droughts for millennia.
—Scott Artis, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Notable droughts have occurred in 1904, 1930-31, 1941, 1954, 1966, and 1988.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for droughts
Noun
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For American farmers waiting on harvesting equipment, that means delays, shortages and higher costs down the line.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
17 Oct. 2025
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Recovering and processing that gas, instead of wasting it, could ease Iraq's chronic power shortages.—
Emma Graham,
CNBC,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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So Vegas has to hope that their forward depth is strong enough to balance out where their star power lacks, relative to other contenders.—
The Athletic NHL,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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This absence — of God, of love, of plain community spirit — is a metaphor for the whole parish, where everyone is defined by their own lacks and deficiencies, the weaknesses that cause Wicks to despise them and vow to bring down them all.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Droughts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droughts. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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