freshets

noun

plural of freshet
as in arroyos

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  1. runoffs
  2. rills
  3. rivulets
  4. brooks
  5. creeks
  6. sloughs
  7. burns
Noun
  • Georgia gubernatorial primaries likely to head to runoffs Both the Democratic and Republican primaries could easily go to a runoff, meaning no single candidate reached a 50% majority during the first election.
    — Irene Wright, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • Candidates look to avoid runoffs Meanwhile, Talarico and Crockett are hoping to avoid a May 26 runoff by capturing at least 50% of the Democratic vote in the March 3 primary.
    — Meg Kinnard, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
Definition of runoffs
Noun
  • What had looked like a dense palm grove from above is actually a lush network of wheat, zucchini, mint, and tomato plots fed by a network of rills that carry water from a natural pool to the crops below.
    — Christopher Garis, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Jan. 2022
Definition of rills
Noun
  • The brush was flattened and rivulets of water ran back toward the sound, which was now miraculously some 100 yards away down a sloping bank.
    — Gerald R. Hunter, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Madly sentient guts spill from the sitter’s back in swollen rivulets.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
Definition of rivulets
Noun
  • 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, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Insects drone over running brooks.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of brooks
Noun
  • Over 10 rivers, creeks and washes in Arizona and southwest Colorado have now surged past major flood stage — the highest level — and a few have set new record crests.
    — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Arizona's Yavapai County and the community of Camp Verde ordered evacuations of residents living near swollen rivers and creeks.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of creeks
Noun
  • Many places that can be reached early in the fall become inaccessible later when the sloughs and channels are half-frozen.
    — Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Without the aid of cold water, officials are electrofishing and netting in the river to remove invasives, and are considering dosing some sloughs and backwaters in the first miles below the dam with fish-killing chemicals.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of sloughs
Noun
  • By comparison, minor electrode burns are the primary side effect sometimes reported from at-home tDCS devices—not nothing, but less disruptive to daily life than antidepressant medications, for instance.
    — IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Those two burns, at altitudes around 115 miles (185 kilometers), took place more than an hour after lift-off and allowed the Orion capsule to break free from Earth's gravity and head for the moon.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of burns
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