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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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Mill Street will be reconstructed with trees and permeable pavers to slow runoff.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2026
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Improve Drainage One of the best ways to prevent mud from forming is to keep runoff water from reaching your yard at all—which often starts on the roof rather than on the ground.—
Nishaa Sharma,
The Spruce,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Dried thyme can be replaced with 1 tablespoon fresh.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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Iris, jasmine, and galbanum give it its floral-meets-fresh-and-powdery finish.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Her laughter was said to sound like a babbling brook.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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Michelle turned back, but the other two children went walking along a trail near what is now I-395 and came across a brook.—
Grace Zokovitch,
Boston Herald,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This crystal-clear waterway is home to multiple species of fish, including rainbow trout and the (adorable) arroyo chub.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Jan. 2026
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There are potsherds and petroglyphs all over, plus an old adobe cabin up in the arroyo.—
Rowan Jacobsen,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The expanse of a cookie, its crumbly craters and molten rivulets, is a playground for the pastry chef.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
4 Dec. 2025
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Turning the rivulet flowing down a melting glacier into a bright-pink stream was the least scientific test carried out this day.—
NPR,
NPR,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Dee Anderson, a spokesperson for the Tarrant County police, said at the time that maintenance workers had been near the creek hours earlier, but Amber’s body was not found.—
Emily Krauser,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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In the ‘Groundhog Day’-esque nightmare that never ends, the ‘urgent’ and ‘engaged’ Boston Red Sox are up a creek without a paddle, vessel, and excuse, having lost out on a top – and very sign-able – free-agent target once again.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
12 Jan. 2026
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 1 Feb. 2026.
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