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Recent Examples of raindrop
When the dancers performed, their costumes sounded like the pattering of raindrops on a tin roof.
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Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
So raindrops bead right off without a mark, and fingerprints are easy to wipe away.
—PC Magazine, 23 June 2025
Now the raindrop splashes in the cobblestones’ puddles could have been a sign of the place itself effervescing into a new state of being.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Those raindrops were fresh—but maybe, just maybe, a single drop contained one solitary molecule of water that was formed in the explosive final moments of a star that lived 13.6 billion years ago.
—Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
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Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
So raindrops bead right off without a mark, and fingerprints are easy to wipe away.
—PC Magazine, 23 June 2025
Now the raindrop splashes in the cobblestones’ puddles could have been a sign of the place itself effervescing into a new state of being.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
Those raindrops were fresh—but maybe, just maybe, a single drop contained one solitary molecule of water that was formed in the explosive final moments of a star that lived 13.6 billion years ago.
—Robin George Andrews, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raindrop
Noun
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People rocked back and forth, some wiping tears with each passing lyric.—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
4 Oct. 2025
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During closing arguments last week, Agnifilo choked back tears and accused the government of unfairly targeting Combs in a broad overreach of power.—
Nancy Dillon,
Rolling Stone,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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There’s something about the night sounds and waking up to dewdrops on the grass that really just scratches a primal itch.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Apr. 2025
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At that time Litoff was a dewdrop and in the caucus race, while Wei was a duck and dewdrop.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This type primarily affects children, causing small, scaly, teardrop-shaped, itchy red bumps on the skin.—
Carrie Madormo,
Health,
10 Sep. 2025
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So Kleox borrows from conventional teardrop design to put forth a solution – or a functional alternative, at least.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But salmon have no boundaries, and bears in pursuit often wander close enough to count droplets clinging to their fur.—
Susan Portnoy,
AFAR Media,
3 Oct. 2025
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Inside the most complex machine mankind has ever devised, a laser beam hits a droplet of tin 50,000 times per second, generating temperatures 40 times those found on the surface of the Sun.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Raindrop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raindrop. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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