MONSOON Synonyms: 13 Similar and Opposite Words

monsoon

noun

Definition of monsoon

as in downpour

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Recent Examples of monsoon Most of the roughly 150 sets of human remains that Hess says are discovered in Pima County every year turn up after monsoon season ends in late September, said Bradley Bartos, assistant professor at the University of Arizona. — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026 The areas that have had significant rainfall from this month's monsoon storms have seen a slight downtick in the drought levels -- for example, parts of southwest and northwest Colorado have seen many areas drop from extreme to severe. — Dave Aguilera, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026 Holding thousands of floating panels in place is another challenge, especially in reservoirs where water depths rise and fall between dry periods and heavy monsoon rains. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026 People have been informally betting on Mother Nature for more than 100 years, Pietruska said, dating to the 1880s when people in India would gamble on whether a rain gauge would overflow during a monsoon. — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for monsoon

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Fires had recently gutted parts of the camps; months later, monsoon downpours would trigger deadly landslides around its tarpaulin-and-bamboo shelters.

— Lorcan Lovett, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
The greatest risk from the storms will be from damaging winds and heavy downpours.

— Rachael Jay, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of downpour

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Dramatic video showed the rescue of one such person as authorities from Nepal worked to drag the man out of the mud deluge.

— Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
On the Chinese side of the border, in the autonomous region of Tibet, the deluge overwhelmed Gyirong Port, a major border crossing with Nepal that, in scenes reminiscent of a disaster movie, appears to have been completely washed away.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026

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An inquest opened Wednesday into the sudden death earlier this month of Jason Arday, a Cambridge University professor who faced a storm of plagiarism accusations.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026
Two small cedar trees were found snapped at the trunk, and that’s the extent of the storm damage, investigators said in a preliminary report.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 26 Aug. 2026

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