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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 severity of droughts, flooding, all of that will get worse.
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Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Six of the 10 countries most vulnerable to a warming climate are in Africa, which has in recent years been buffeted by devastating droughts and floods, both of which are exacerbated by climate change.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Egypt, which built its own Aswan High Dam on the Nile in the 1960s, fears the GERD could restrict its water supply during droughts, and could encourage the construction of other upstream dams.
—CNN Money, 9 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
Once a livestock farmer, Ackerman pivoted the family land to pumpkins back in the ‘80s, after commodity prices crashed and a couple of droughts wreaked havoc on the industry.
—Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 5 Sep. 2025
Herdade de Rio Frio’s cork oaks, which are native to Portugal and can resist frequent droughts and scorching summer temperatures, were planted more than a century ago.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Floods and droughts are increasingly common in a warming climate.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Each year, Congress allocates billions to keep crops in the ground, cushioning the blow from droughts, floods, fires and market swings — a safety net that dates to the 1930s, when the Depression and Dust Bowl put the nation’s food supply at risk.
—Molly Parker, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Six of the 10 countries most vulnerable to a warming climate are in Africa, which has in recent years been buffeted by devastating droughts and floods, both of which are exacerbated by climate change.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Egypt, which built its own Aswan High Dam on the Nile in the 1960s, fears the GERD could restrict its water supply during droughts, and could encourage the construction of other upstream dams.
—CNN Money, 9 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
Once a livestock farmer, Ackerman pivoted the family land to pumpkins back in the ‘80s, after commodity prices crashed and a couple of droughts wreaked havoc on the industry.
—Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 5 Sep. 2025
Herdade de Rio Frio’s cork oaks, which are native to Portugal and can resist frequent droughts and scorching summer temperatures, were planted more than a century ago.
—Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
Floods and droughts are increasingly common in a warming climate.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
Each year, Congress allocates billions to keep crops in the ground, cushioning the blow from droughts, floods, fires and market swings — a safety net that dates to the 1930s, when the Depression and Dust Bowl put the nation’s food supply at risk.
—Molly Parker, ProPublica, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for droughts
Noun
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By last winter, after significant reconstruction, rolling blackouts were rare, and power shortages were mostly localized.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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With rising costs, labor shortages and a push for more sustainable building methods, this kind of breakthrough could shape the future of American neighborhoods.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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But Davies’s film has a patience and lightness of touch that Scorsese’s lacks, as well as a note-perfect lead in Gillian Anderson.—
Elle Carroll,
Vulture,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Droughts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droughts. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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