as in downpour
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Recent Examples of monsoon
The devices cannot function during the cloudy monsoon season, can only process a few bodies at a time, and their intense heat tends to drive away smaller scavengers like crows.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Four out of the past seven years have seen above average rainfall, which has led to blooms covering areas in the park such as Henderson Canyon and June Wash.
Last summer though, the desert didn’t experience its seasonal monsoons.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
From fish heads to pigs feet, all kinds of flesh and fruit at a Miami Gardens supermarket got sent to the garbage when state inspectors unleashed a monsoon of Stop Sale Orders during a visit this week.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.
—Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025
Four out of the past seven years have seen above average rainfall, which has led to blooms covering areas in the park such as Henderson Canyon and June Wash.
Last summer though, the desert didn’t experience its seasonal monsoons.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025
From fish heads to pigs feet, all kinds of flesh and fruit at a Miami Gardens supermarket got sent to the garbage when state inspectors unleashed a monsoon of Stop Sale Orders during a visit this week.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Tall palm trees and bamboo and beyond them high misty mountains covered with vegetation of a deep monsoon green.
—Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsoon
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Precipitation patterns have also changed dramatically in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions that Pasa serves, bringing swings between periods of drought and heavy, damaging downpours.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Mar. 2025
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The cross-country storm will break out on Saturday before moving into the East on Sunday, bringing downpours and tornado threats to the Eastern Seaboard, from northern Florida to Maryland.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
26 Mar. 2025
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But that’s just it: they’re integrated into our city’s infrastructure, hiding in plain sight, doing double duty — the way all our infrastructure must — to beautify these neighborhoods and keep us safer against deluge.—
Jeff Roth,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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In Oklahoma, people braced for more rain after a deluge turned deadly earlier in the weekend.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2025
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East-Central Florida: Showers and isolated storms will be possible from mid to late afternoon, mainly near to northwest of the I-4 corridor.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Sultans of Swing by British rock band Dire Straits, which has become the squad’s anthem of the season, went down a storm.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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And with rising temperatures come rising risks: stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic, more severe cloudbursts in storms across North America, increasing drought in the Great Plains, larger wildfires in the West.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2024
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And with the climate’s rising temperature comes rising risks: stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic, more severe cloudbursts in storms across the continent, increasing drought on the Great Plains, larger wildfires in the West.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2024
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“Monsoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsoon. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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