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Recent Examples of freshet
Two and a half feet of rain beat down upon the face of the San Gabriels, wiping out the rustic resorts wedged into the canyons, and chuting runoff waters down onto the plain along ancient dry rivulets and freshets and canyons that Angelenos had forgotten or never known about.
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Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
As August turned to September, the sun dropped and the first cold freshet of autumn rainwater flowed out of the mountains and tickled the noses of the salmon waiting off Astoria, where the Columbia meets the Pacific Ocean.
—Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
And spring will come and melt this frozen beauty with its thunderous freshet.
—Peter Marteka, courant.com, 7 Jan. 2018
Director Matthew Ozawa gave the demon barber and all his victims credible backstories, adding flesh to the freshets of blood in Skylight Music Theatre’s production of this Sondheim classic.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2017
And so this river rises, gathers new freshets, drains ever more valleys.
—Bill McKibben, New Republic, 12 July 2017
New springs, freshets of water popping out of the mountain and onto the road, created small gullies almost daily, and mud tainted the blue ocean the color of a café latte in broad eddies circling up the coast.
—Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
As August turned to September, the sun dropped and the first cold freshet of autumn rainwater flowed out of the mountains and tickled the noses of the salmon waiting off Astoria, where the Columbia meets the Pacific Ocean.
—Patrick Symmes, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
And spring will come and melt this frozen beauty with its thunderous freshet.
—Peter Marteka, courant.com, 7 Jan. 2018
Director Matthew Ozawa gave the demon barber and all his victims credible backstories, adding flesh to the freshets of blood in Skylight Music Theatre’s production of this Sondheim classic.
—Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2017
And so this river rises, gathers new freshets, drains ever more valleys.
—Bill McKibben, New Republic, 12 July 2017
New springs, freshets of water popping out of the mountain and onto the road, created small gullies almost daily, and mud tainted the blue ocean the color of a café latte in broad eddies circling up the coast.
—Thomas Curwen, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for freshet
Noun
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The neck-and-neck result is likely to spell trouble for Cepeda in the runoff, where De la Espriella is expected to scoop up many of Valencia’s voters.—
Megan Janetsky,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
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For months, Democrats publicly fretted that the fractured field of candidates could lead to a Republican-on-Republican runoff, locking the party out of the governor’s mansion for the first time in two decades.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
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College seniors Laila Edwards, Lacey Eden and Kirsten Simms are coming into the draft fresh off Wisconsin’s Frozen Four championship this spring.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
29 Apr. 2026
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Keep your laundry fresh and your machine running smoothly by avoiding this common detergent mistake.—
Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Meanwhile, the charming house with a small brook off to the side, stands waiting to be occupied with some, but not a lot, of work required.—
Pamela McLoughlin,
Hartford Courant,
12 May 2026
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Each treatment villa creates a moment—opening up onto a bespoke, private slice of babbling brook and lush jungle, the sounds of which perfectly underscore any massage.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
Noun
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Her soon-to-be husband waited for her where the arroyo opened to the road.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Mar. 2026
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At one still-damp arroyo, the cast-concrete components of a bridge had been tumbled 50 yards downstream from their foundation.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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His uniform and scalp were lined with glistening rivulets of oil, water, soot and sweat.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
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In this piercing account of the American Dream in tatters, the magnitude of that dimension feels appropriate, echoing the currents of betrayal, fear and death that course through the film like rivulets of blood.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
Noun
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Campers and hikers should avoid streams or creeks.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
30 May 2026
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After a search for Airen that involved multiple agencies, his body was found in a creek bed in Bates County.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
30 May 2026
Noun
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Those residents might also like to see the name of Indian Creek, another rill which traverses the county, given a new designation.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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His verses evoke sacred rivers, fertile grounds and gardens bright with sinuous rills—a lyrical world beyond the inauspicious reality of its start-point.—
Natalie Hoberman,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
Noun
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It is built across what once was a narrow streamlet with water so clean that the community used it to wash their clothes and bathe children.—
Hasan Ali,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Feb. 2023
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The water vapor signal in that band, though, is small, like a streamlet.—
Alejandra Borunda,
National Geographic,
26 Nov. 2019
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“Freshet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/freshet. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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