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as in poured
to fall as water in a continuous stream of drops from the clouds
it started raining early this morning and hasn't let up since
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as in heaped
to give readily and in large quantities
she rained praise upon her graduating students the squadron rained bombs on the enemy's fortifications
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Recent Examples of rained
For the next six hours, both gentle showers and torrential thunderstorms rained down, dropping about an inch of rain on Manchester, according to the National Weather Service.
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Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
Then on Thursday, Russian missiles and drones rained on Kyiv, causing multiple deaths and injuries.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Corporate patronage, driven by the hype surrounding indie, also rained paydays on off-beat artists.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
The video shows staff staring in disbelief as jagged shards rained down, littering the floor in the immediate aftermath.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Instead, the rocket broke apart and rained debris over the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands more than 1,500 miles downrange from Starbase.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
The drones alone carried as much as 1,700 metric tons of explosives that rained down on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Billions of years ago, when Earth was a giant ball of magma, dense droplets of liquid iron rained down into the planet’s depths, and this iron rain took the highly siderophile elements along for the ride, sequestering them in the core.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Aug. 2025
Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 3 Sep. 2025
Then on Thursday, Russian missiles and drones rained on Kyiv, causing multiple deaths and injuries.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
Corporate patronage, driven by the hype surrounding indie, also rained paydays on off-beat artists.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
The video shows staff staring in disbelief as jagged shards rained down, littering the floor in the immediate aftermath.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Instead, the rocket broke apart and rained debris over the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands more than 1,500 miles downrange from Starbase.
—Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
The drones alone carried as much as 1,700 metric tons of explosives that rained down on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Billions of years ago, when Earth was a giant ball of magma, dense droplets of liquid iron rained down into the planet’s depths, and this iron rain took the highly siderophile elements along for the ride, sequestering them in the core.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rained
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Lefkofsky has poured $100 million into Tempus, which has yet to turn a profit.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Tributes poured in after the tragic deaths of the brother and sister.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Here in our yards, long years of earth have been hefted by hand and heaped up on tarps.—
Steven Searcy,
IEEE Spectrum,
31 Aug. 2025
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However, so far, the chaotic policy rollout has paralyzed some businesses and heaped even more pressure on US manufacturing.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
25 Aug. 2025
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Florida State was fined $50,000 after fans stormed the field following Saturday’s 31-17 victory over Alabama, becoming the first team in the ACC to receive the fine following the conference’s policy change in July.—
Paulina Dedaj,
FOXNews.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Separately, the United Nations said Houthi authorities stormed its premises in areas under their control in Yemen and detained at least 11 personnel.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, for all the time lavished upon Tom’s grief or Robbie’s, far less attention is directed toward some of the other characters in their periphery, who’ve struggled just as much if not more.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Entrenched Chinese foreign policy positions, including territorial disputes and industrial subsidies that have flooded foreign markets with cheap exports, will likely remain friction points, experts say, while India's deep distrust of China will not dissipate because of one brief meeting.—
James Pomfret,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Shortly after her home flooded, Olathe denied her tort claim in early August.—
Taylor O'Connor,
Kansas City Star,
5 Sep. 2025
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Accepting the biggest award of the night on Sunday, September 7 at New York’s UBS Arena, Grande took the stage with the video’s director Christian Breslauer, and showered her fans with both appreciation and inspiration.—
Cathy Applefeld Olson,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Mount Fuji’s dormant threat Fuji, Japan’s tallest peak, erupted roughly every 30 years and 318 years since its last eruption, known as the Hoei eruption, showered ash across Edo.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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North Carolina, hosting a standalone game on ESPN as the final game of college football’s Week 1, looked more like the late-era New England Patriots teams that precipitated Belichick’s departure from the NFL than the early teams that built one of the league’s proudest dynasties.—
David Ubben,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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Early signs of fraud in the AI era Chanos’s framework for predicting the rise of fraud is that it is precipitated by periods of mass financial growth.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Rained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rained. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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