rainy day

Definition of rainy daynext

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rainy day
Noun
  • But Carey doesn’t know if the culture of higher education can accommodate that type of emergency thinking.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
  • Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said emergency responders treated victims at four separate shooting scenes across the city.
    Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • By studying how tissues can survive without oxygen, researchers can potentially develop therapeutics to treat conditions of oxygen deprivation, such as strokes.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • The shift comes as Americans report record levels of stress and sleep deprivation, and as the global sleep economy balloons into a multibillion-dollar industry.
    Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • In West Texas, some locals were hopeful that the exigencies of life in a rural area, where recordkeeping can be rudimentary and property boundaries aren’t always clear, might stymie the project, at least for a little while.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • The likelihood of success in a second round of talks increases with the political exigencies and condition of those at the table.
    Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
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“Rainy day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainy%20day. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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