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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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Republican businessman Jason Dickerson beat Democrat Debra Shigley in the Tuesday runoff after no candidate in a seven-person field won a majority to take the seat outright in August.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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However, by the late 1920s, the river was once again polluted by industrial and human runoff and was deemed unsafe for swimming.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Vikings could aim to keep Jones fresh for the second half of the season and the playoffs by giving more touches to Mason over the first couple of months.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The show is, of course, trading in familiar stereotypes for all its real-life characters, but there is something about its bespoke combination of the retro and the fresh.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Many of these parcels have elements like oak woodlands, meadows, brooks and rivers that create cooler, wetter areas that help plants and animals endure wildfires or periods of extreme heat or drought.—
Beth Rose Middleton Manning,
The Conversation,
15 Sep. 2025
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The original one, fed by a nearby brook, has been out of commission for decades, and two others, installed by the current owners, haven’t been used in several years.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
27 Aug. 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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Several rivulets flowed lazily through the debris.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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In the early 1990s, as Illinois allowed the operation of floating gaming venues, the rivulet was considered by one developer to house a riverboat casino.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Campers and hikers should avoid streams or creeks.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Stay away from creeks and washes!—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
27 Sep. 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 30 Sep. 2025.
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