SEMIARID Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

semiarid

adjective

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Recent Examples of semiarid One reason is the technical challenge of growing trees in a semiarid city built for cars. — Sam Bloch august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025 These lizards can be found in arid and semiarid habitats in open areas with sparse plant cover. — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025 The semiarid region along the border with Mexico usually receives about 25 inches annually. — John Yoon, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 In the Sahel region, a semiarid belt of land stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, temperatures are expected to rise 1 1/2 times faster than the global average, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. — Saskia Houttuin, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for semiarid

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Suzana Aguiar is a fifth-generation cotton grower from a semi-arid region of Brazil.

— Bart Vollaard, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
One of the most famously arid national landmarks succumbed to deadly flash flooding over the weekend, leaving at least one person dead and more than a dozen unaccounted for as more rain could lash Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona on Monday.

— Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of arid

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Earlier Monday, some residents returned to find their homes leveled by wildfires that erupted across a parched landscape over the weekend, covering yards in charred debris.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026
Volunteers armed with watering cans, trucks and makeshift water tanks shadow firefighters, battling underground flare-ups in parched pine forests after months without rain and increasingly fire-prone conditions linked to climate change.

— Mark Carlson, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

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The experience of eating it is even more shocking … the electric crunch of passionfruit seeds giving way to exploding citrus vesicles, glimmering like wayward teardrop gems … and … was that a dehydrated banana?

— Cooking Editor, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
The masks are made from hydrogel, which, Dixneuf says, is particularly well-suited for dehydrated, puffy, and tired eyes.

— Jenny Berg, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025

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