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Recent Examples of bone-dry
Nestled in the bone-dry hills of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a two-story green stucco estate provided legendary actor Gene Hackman respite from the chaos of Hollywood during his final years.
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
One solution – burying power lines in areas with bone-dry vegetation – would be costly.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, two new fires are burning near San Diego amid relentless Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions that have kept Southern California on high alert for over two weeks.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
His humorous, bone-dry documentary gets at more than most, first by being a meta-confessional about how his own efforts to make a conventional movie failed.
—Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
One solution – burying power lines in areas with bone-dry vegetation – would be costly.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
Meanwhile, two new fires are burning near San Diego amid relentless Santa Ana winds and bone-dry conditions that have kept Southern California on high alert for over two weeks.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2025
His humorous, bone-dry documentary gets at more than most, first by being a meta-confessional about how his own efforts to make a conventional movie failed.
—Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bone-dry
Adjective
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Rooftops tell their own stories, some adorned with statues of gods and warriors and others with sunbaked locals sipping café con leche.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 Apr. 2025
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Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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Residents and hikers first saw it as a modest brush fire looming in the parched scrubland.—
Jon Schuppe,
NBC News,
11 Jan. 2025
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The winds will die down, and rain will eventually return to Southern California, but this one-two punch of high wind and parched landscapes will recur and intensify in the future.—
Kylie Mohr,
WIRED,
21 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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After washing, always air-dry your sweater on a flat surface to maintain its shape and texture.—
Katelyn Squiers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Apr. 2025
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Let the ceiling air-dry before cooking in the kitchen.—
Halee Miller Van Ryswyk,
Better Homes & Gardens,
27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Brown’s research looks to arid locales like Sicily, where flourishing pistachio trees are rainfed with 90 percent less water than farmed pistachio trees in California.—
SAVEUR Editors,
Saveur,
16 Apr. 2025
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This town is pure California, with arid temps, soaring date palms, and bursts of impossibly red bougainvillea that spills from white adobe brick courtyards.—
Rebecca Deurlein,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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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.—
Tribune Content Agency,
oregonlive,
27 Nov. 2022
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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.—
Camille Fine,
USA TODAY,
22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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Rain could aid firefighting efforts and saturate dry fuels, reducing their risk of igniting in the future.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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The command center overhead stocked a whole town’s worth (450 tonnes) of equipment — including bunk beds, dry toilets, water, and other supplies — ready to be mobilized into the tunnels below by way of dolly carts.—
Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
The Dial,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Bone-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bone-dry. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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