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Recent Examples of raindrop
This is why a prism or a raindrop breaks light up into separate colors to create a rainbow.
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2025
As fat raindrops sent onlookers scurrying for cover, the two course partners finished with respective 66 and 67 scores on the day and knotted at six-under atop the early leaderboard.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 June 2025
With two on and two outs, Max Muncy lofted a high pop-up into the wind and thick raindrops – at least one the size of a baseball.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
As the first looks emerged, raindrops fell, then lightning cracked crisply across the sky.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 26 June 2025
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Phil Plait, Scientific American, 15 May 2025
As fat raindrops sent onlookers scurrying for cover, the two course partners finished with respective 66 and 67 scores on the day and knotted at six-under atop the early leaderboard.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 June 2025
With two on and two outs, Max Muncy lofted a high pop-up into the wind and thick raindrops – at least one the size of a baseball.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 26 June 2025
As the first looks emerged, raindrops fell, then lightning cracked crisply across the sky.
—Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for raindrop
Noun
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Exercise creates microscopic tears in your muscle tissues, which then triggers an inflammatory process in your body that results in that sore sensation, as SELF previously reported.—
Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
18 July 2025
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In 2024, Rice suffered an ACL tear and played in only four games after a dominant rookie season.—
David Close,
CNN Money,
17 July 2025
Noun
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There’s something about the night sounds and waking up to dewdrops on the grass that really just scratches a primal itch.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
17 Apr. 2025
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At that time Litoff was a dewdrop and in the caucus race, while Wei was a duck and dewdrop.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Second, the thinner design of the hinge provides more area inside the hinge assembly for the flexible glass to form a teardrop shape when the phone is closed.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
17 July 2025
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Acheulean tools were known for more refined hand axes that had a pear or teardrop shape and were better at butchering wild game.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
3 July 2025
Noun
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The last reported occurrence of human-to-human transmission was reported in 1924, according to the National Institutes of Health, and is typically spread through respiratory droplets.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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Measles, a highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease spread through respiratory droplets, was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
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“Raindrop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/raindrop. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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