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Recent Examples of monsoon
If possible, avoid planning your trip for July, as the monsoon season is known to bring flash floods to the desert.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
Fish entrails, readily available from nearby markets, are fermented to create amino acids, while seaweed, which washes ashore during the monsoon season, is repurposed into natural fertilizers.
—Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
In Thailand Although Thailand is an all-year-round destination, its monsoon season typically occurs from June to October, bringing heavier rains, especially on the Andaman Coast (Phuket, Krabi, Koh Phi Phi).
—Roger Sands, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
From fish heads to pigs feet, all kinds of flesh and fruit at a Miami Gardens supermarket got sent to the garbage when state inspectors unleashed a monsoon of Stop Sale Orders during a visit this week.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
Fish entrails, readily available from nearby markets, are fermented to create amino acids, while seaweed, which washes ashore during the monsoon season, is repurposed into natural fertilizers.
—Daphne Ewing-Chow, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
In Thailand Although Thailand is an all-year-round destination, its monsoon season typically occurs from June to October, bringing heavier rains, especially on the Andaman Coast (Phuket, Krabi, Koh Phi Phi).
—Roger Sands, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
From fish heads to pigs feet, all kinds of flesh and fruit at a Miami Gardens supermarket got sent to the garbage when state inspectors unleashed a monsoon of Stop Sale Orders during a visit this week.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monsoon
Noun
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Additional threats include occasional to frequent lightning strikes, small hail, heavy downpours and a low threat for a brief tornado.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
10 Mar. 2025
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During this time, there’s a 10% to 20% chance of thunderstorms with brief, heavy downpours that could cause significant roadway flooding or debris flows in recent burn scars.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2025
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Every employee is trying to synthesize and understand the deluge of information now being generated by AI.—
Rob Green,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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In one pivotal instance, 8 Passengers received a deluge of disapproving comments after Chad, the Frankes’ then-teenage son, revealed that his mother had been punishing him by forcing him to sleep in their basement for seven months, on a beanbag chair.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
31 Mar. 2025
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To the south, near the equator and the sun’s azimuth, low-pressure zones create frequent storms.—
Christophe Lavaysse,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Apr. 2025
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Hail and damaging winds are the primary threats with these storms, along with a low tornado threat.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Apr. 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 22 Apr. 2025.
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