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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
Pools of it, rivulets of it, lapping lakes and freshets of it, in a green and timbered landscape — our eyes were always thirsty for the sight of it.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 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
Pools of it, rivulets of it, lapping lakes and freshets of it, in a green and timbered landscape — our eyes were always thirsty for the sight of it.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 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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While the rhetoric between the candidates remained relatively civil throughout the months-long battle, the prevalence of negative campaigning appeared to have a significant influence on the runoff results.—
Devan Patel,
Mercury News,
26 June 2025
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Chemical runoff was contained and vacuum trucks were brought in for cleanup.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
26 June 2025
Noun
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In the meantime, keep those feeders sparkling clean and the nectar fresh.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
28 Apr. 2025
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The line up includes The Lox, Da Brat, GZA, Juvenile, Lupe Fiasco, MC Lyte, Fabolous, Xzibit and more with DJs: Jazzy Jeff, Mannie fresh, DJ Paul, DJ Scratch and others.—
Amber Corrine,
VIBE.com,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The vast and varied network of the Camino de Santiago has been compared to a river system where small brooks join together to make streams, and those streams come together to make rivers that ‘flow’ to the cathedral.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
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The surrounding 23 acres the estate sits on are full of trails ripe for exploring, too, and take visitors past historic stone walls, cemeteries, and babbling brooks.—
Blair West,
Travel + Leisure,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Officials said Sturluson, 23 – who was experiencing homelessness – was shot May 1 after asking the teen and Curtis to stop firing into a arroyo, or dry creek, that was close by.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2025
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And while our street was close enough to the national forest that bears and bobcats were not uncommon sights, it was also separated from it by a dry arroyo and five blocks of houses in between.—
Josh Eells,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.—
Chris Hedges,
Harpers Magazine,
15 June 2024
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The body meld transforms into a mind meld near the end, when each woman shoots streams of shiny water from their eyes, with the separate rivulets crashing into each other to form a floating, fiery disco ball heart.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
10 Mar. 2025
Noun
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While traversing steep mountain trails and navigating undulating bent grass greens at Cliffhangers, golfers will drive carts through cascading waterfalls, cross swift flowing creeks, and wind through a cave system.—
Erik Matuszewski,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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It is situated along a creek just off California State Route 2 in Angeles National Forest.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
Noun
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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
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Earthbound telescopes saw rills or gullies that later proved to be collapsed lava tubes.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
16 July 2024
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 8 Jul. 2025.
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