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Recent Examples of sere Her sister’s sere hair went among the grasses; her head was full of the Child. Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025 Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023 Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified. Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023 Early hominids may have stood up and gotten naked as a way to cope with heat stress on the sere African savanna. Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 But the western region accounts for a small fraction of the land, which unfolds east from the Cascades in expanses of sere high desert, lush pasture and thick forest. Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023 As the sere image above suggests, the shortgrass prairie of eastern Colorado is ordinarily a dry place. Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013 Just to the east of the Sierra Nevada lies the sere landscape of the Basin and Range province, characterized by linear mountains and valleys arranged roughly in parallel. Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2018 Here was a tense dialectic that energized his entire career—a tugging between a world of civic engagement, where all pronouncements are dubious, and a sere realm of a lovely, but unsustainable, disembodiment. Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sere
Adjective
  • Scientists believe that during the Triassic period, this part of Arizona was an arid place positioned in the middle of Pangaea right above the equator, later submerged by a flood that likely buried all the creatures preserved in the bonebed.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
  • Kentucky is relatively water-rich, compared to parts of the arid southwest, but has suffered droughts in recent years, as the region's rainfall shifts toward more intense, clustered events.
    Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Then plant ones that prefer dry soil, such as junipers, sedums, and yuccas elsewhere.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
  • His voice guided viewers through the storylines with dry humor and Southern charm.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 5 July 2025
Adjective
  • The South Coast Air Basin includes Orange County and non-desert portions of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • This prohibits wood burning both indoors and outdoors across Orange County and the non-desert areas of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Wilted leaves are the first sign your plant is thirsty.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2025
  • Just don't overthink it — water when your plant looks thirsty, and ease off when the soil feels too moist.
    Brandi D. Addison, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • 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.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 27 Nov. 2022
  • Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022

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“Sere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sere. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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