as in downpour
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Recent Examples of monsoon
The hottest month in Sedona is July, with an average high temperature of 97 degrees, though the summer monsoons, which usually begin in June and can last as late as August, bring cooling afternoon rains.
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Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024
During monsoon season, the whole area becomes a flood zone.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
Floods from the yearly monsoon rains also left millions stranded and hundreds dead in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Nepal, making this year one of the deadliest in recent memory.
—Curtis S. Chin and Jose B. Collazo, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2024
The banks below the Santa Rita Mountains once teemed with runoff and springs fed by winter storms and summer monsoon rains, only to be pumped mostly dry by the mid-20th century.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
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Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024
During monsoon season, the whole area becomes a flood zone.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
Floods from the yearly monsoon rains also left millions stranded and hundreds dead in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, and Nepal, making this year one of the deadliest in recent memory.
—Curtis S. Chin and Jose B. Collazo, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2024
The banks below the Santa Rita Mountains once teemed with runoff and springs fed by winter storms and summer monsoon rains, only to be pumped mostly dry by the mid-20th century.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsoon
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On Sunday afternoon and evening, there may be heavier downpours at times, potentially even a thunderstorm or two.—
Kenton Gewecke,
ABC News,
25 Jan. 2025
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Fertilizers applied just before a downpour are highly susceptible to runoff, and the nutrients will likely be carried away before benefiting plants.—
Anthony Reardon,
Kansas City Star,
10 Jan. 2025
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Instead, the supply deluge quickly overran every submarket, every age category of apartment and every apartment type, with older apartments and studios seeing some of the biggest increases in vacancy rates.—
Aldo Svaldi,
The Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2025
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The deluge, directed at an unnamed Cloudflare customer, came from 13,000 IoT devices infected by a variant of Mirai, a potent piece of malware with a long history of delivering massive DDoSes of once-unimaginable sizes.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
22 Jan. 2025
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One account holds that the old Celtic cross was stolen, and then floated back to the island after a storm.—
Leslie Jamison,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Jan. 2025
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Freezing temperatures have kept parts of the South at a standstill after a winter storm.—
David Leonhardt,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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And with rising temperatures come rising risks: stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic, more severe cloudbursts in storms across North America, increasing drought in the Great Plains, larger wildfires in the West.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2024
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And with the climate’s rising temperature comes rising risks: stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic, more severe cloudbursts in storms across the continent, increasing drought on the Great Plains, larger wildfires in the West.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
4 Feb. 2024
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“Monsoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monsoon. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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