engulfment

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Noun
  • Major flooding indicates that there will be water inundation to structures and roads.
    Christiana Freitag, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Up to one half foot of saltwater inundation above ground level is possible near shorelines and tidal waterways.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Florida has long attracted those looking to trade crowded city life for sunshine, space and a lower cost of living, and even as the pandemic-era surge has cooled the appeal remains.
    Tracy Yochum, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Questions were frequently posed during the great immigration surge in the five decades from the 1880s to the 1920s.
    Lawrence Glickman, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Bringing retail investors home Seoul has implemented measures to try and stem outflows, with the country's finance ministry announcing tax breaks for individual investors who sell their foreign holdings.
    Lim Hui Jie,Blair Baek, CNBC, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Bankers told me that money outflows have not been out of the ordinary.
    Alaa Shahine Salha, semafor.com, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The flood of Chinese car exports to the rest of the world does not stem from some kind of altruistic intention from President Xi Jinping to increase global mobility.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 1 May 2026
  • The exhibit included two amphibious trucks that AT&T personnel have used to cross rivers and floods to restore cell sites, plus a 46-foot-long landing craft that the firm bought two years ago to transport up to 20,000 pounds of larger vehicles and gear.
    Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • The organizer posted that the event had been canceled, and the comments section was filled with an outpouring of shock and grief.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the devastation, the family has received an outpouring of support from the community, something Jackeline Madrid said reflects who her father was.
    Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • While the weekend isn't looking like a washout, a few rounds of showers are likely across the state.
    Steven Sosna, CBS News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • On the other hand, cool‑season sod farmers usually grow Kentucky bluegrass, which germinates slowly compared to other turfgrass species, increasing the risk of washouts.
    Ryan Bearss, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • According to Farmington Police, officers responded to a medical call resulting from discharge of a firearm in the parking lot of 1 Forest Park Drive Tuesday.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, 31, was also charged with transportation of a firearm and ammunition through interstate commerce with intent to commit a felony, as well as discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Smaller children from a nearby elementary school were availing themselves of climbers, slides, and beams.
    Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The slide has come alongside a broader retreat in software stocks due to fears that AI models might hurt growth and that models like those from Anthropic and OpenAI would disrupt older businesses.
    Jordan Novet,Lola Murti, CNBC, 4 May 2026
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“Engulfment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/engulfment. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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