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Recent Examples of monsoon
October is a busy season for hiking around Everest, when skies tend to clear after the monsoon season.
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Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
October typically offers clear skies following the Indian monsoon season.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
When to Visit Spring and fall are Capitol Reef’s prime travel times, with milder temperatures and less monsoon risk.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
As far as temperatures go, Las Vegas topped out at 112 degrees Fahrenheit during this year's monsoon season.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
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Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2025
October typically offers clear skies following the Indian monsoon season.
—Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
When to Visit Spring and fall are Capitol Reef’s prime travel times, with milder temperatures and less monsoon risk.
—Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
As far as temperatures go, Las Vegas topped out at 112 degrees Fahrenheit during this year's monsoon season.
—Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsoon
Noun
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Parents push their children in strollers during downpour breaks, walking and clinging to their coffee cups for warmth.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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Storms can be spotty and short-lived, while others can unleash strong winds, flashes of lightning and torrential downpours.—
Hayleigh Evans,
AZCentral.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Faced with a deluge of Chinese competitors, debt issues and the collapse of a sale to Amazon, American home robotics company iRobot is in some trouble at the moment at the corporate level, and all the import tariffs of the rainbow may not be able to help, since iRobot manufactures in Asia.—
Loz Blain
October 14,
New Atlas,
14 Oct. 2025
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With more than 600 million copies of the books sold worldwide, and everything related to them continuing to do well years after the initial release of the books, one wonders how this series remains popular despite the deluge of young adult novels (and controversy) that followed it.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Oct. 2025
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The seemingly low-risk, high-reward form of gambling has taken the sports betting world by storm.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
11 Oct. 2025
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Follow our coverage of the latest rain totals, forecasts and alerts as storms move through the state.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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The whole experience tasted of the sea and the end of summer, punctuated by soft little cloudbursts on the palate.—
The Bon Appétit Staff,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Rockies’ epic drought ended with a cloudburst of terrific pitching by Tanner Gordon and one of the feel-good moments of the season coming from a most unlikely source.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Monsoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsoon. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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