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deluge

[del-yooj, -yoozh, del-ooj, -oozh, dih-looj, -loozh] / ˈdɛl yudʒ, -yuʒ, ˈdɛl udʒ, -uʒ, dɪˈludʒ, -ˈluʒ /






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Deluge in California: The blazes in Chile were likely worsened by El Niño, the cyclical climate pattern that also may have worsened the damage from a record-breaking storm in California.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2024

"What does water want?" she asks in her book Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023

This story is part of a series, After the Deluge, produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

The response to the Crash, according to Adam Tooze in his book The Deluge, was deflationary policies were pursued everywhere.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017

Josephus defended the Noachian Deluge on the sole ground that an account of it was held by the Chaldeans, never pretending that the Chaldean account was taken from the Jewish record.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.




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