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Recent Examples of rainless
Overwatering Problems In Vegetable Gardens During the hot, rainless summers in the South, giving a vegetable garden more and more water seems ideal to keep plants looking perky and their produce growing larger.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
8 May 2026
Drought hangs like a dark, rainless cloud over the borderlands.
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Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
8 May 2026
Drought hangs like a dark, rainless cloud over the borderlands.
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Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rainless
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The best times to see the Northern Lights are during the winter months when the sky is cloudless and the moon wanes.
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The sky in Modesto and Sacramento is expected to be cloudless on Tuesday night, when the best galaxy viewing conditions begin, according to to the National Weather Service’s seven-day forecast.
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As noted by the Brewers broadcast, a second-inning double by A’s shortstop Alika Williams might have gone foul if not for the extremely arid Las Vegas air.
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The semi-arid region’s population has exploded over the past century—the river served only 457,000 people in 1922—as has its agriculture sector, which now covers more than 5 million acres of farmland and accounts for 70% of all water use.
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Weather conditions Sunday are expected to be partly sunny and hot, reaching a high of 86, according to the National Weather Service.
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Skies will be sunny with temperature highs near 94 degrees.
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Combine gin, lime juice, syrup, Aperol and dry Curaçao in a shaker filled with ice.
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Although oil companies still needed to use up a significant portion of their inventories during the supply shock, the demand destruction kept crude stockpiles from running dry.
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Create a sunshiny mix by planting pale yellow 'Moonbeam' alongside the richer, more golden 'Zagreb,' Yost says.
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Yet, that sunshiny aspect might actually work against it and send voters toward something with a little more weight.
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While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
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Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.
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Exotic animals in Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson said the mild climate and rugged terrain of the Texas Hill Country seems to serve as a good stand-in for most of the animals' native African environments, and is no stranger to tracking missing animals, especially after floods.
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Luckily for the man, the effects were relatively mild.
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The two were reported missing around 9 p.m. near the Cap Draa Training Area outside Tan-Tan, a terrain featuring mountains, desert and semi-desert plains, the Moroccan military said.
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The terrain is mountainous, a mix of desert and semi-desert plains.
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“Rainless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainless. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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