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Adjective
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The agency recalled that between 2022 and 2024, around 60% of annual admissions for severe acute malnutrition occurred during the rainy season, meaning that up to 462,000 children could be affected this year if the trend holds.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
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Areas affected by the Harmattan experience significant dryness, unlike the rainy season when the monsoon wind (from the south) prevails.—
Christophe Lavaysse,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The present-day Affleck and titular accountant from The Accountant 2 seems to briefly reach out and touch the Sad Affleck of days of yore in this final memory, his eyes almost misty and voice quiet.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2025
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Today, its entire world has shrunk to the cool, misty canopy of the Alakaʻi Plateau.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In frigid, windy conditions, Crochet’s first pitch crossed the plate with a game-time temperature of 35 degrees and a 23-degree wind chill.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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While officials, contractors and builders watched, fires were lit in the wood chips in the flower beds in front of the sheds, then large fans were turned on to mimic conditions during the hot, windy weather of a Red Flag fire event.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Pregame Arkansas and Missouri are set to get underway at 1 p.m. on another cold, overcast day in Fayetteville.—
Matt Jones,
Arkansas Online,
6 Apr. 2025
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Clouds block sunlight, with only about one-third of the Sun’s radiation making it through a fully overcast sky.—
Steven R. Fassnacht,
The Conversation,
17 Feb. 2025
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The mandate: incorporate a young couple’s love of Ancient Rome, James Turrell skyspaces, and stormy beach days into a tip-to-tail renovation of an 1840s Greek Revival brownstone.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
21 Apr. 2025
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There was no law enforcement involvement at the meeting, in contrast to the stormy town hall held Tuesday night by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) in which police used tasers to subdue and remove two hecklers.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Showery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/showery. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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