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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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Stephen King, who read an advance copy of The Deluge, called it "the best novel" he read last year.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023

Deluge be damned, Stutzmann turned in one of the most honestly moving Tchaikovsky Sixths that I have heard.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

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

Despite its fragility and scale, it holds its own in a room themed around the conflicts of the 1970s opposite Philip Guston’s magisterial painting Deluge II, made at the same time.

From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2019

As to the branch of the Celts—in the bardic poems of Wales, we have a tradition of the Deluge, which, although recent under the concise form of the Triads, is still deserving of attention.

From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various




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