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autumn

[aw-tuhm] / ˈɔ təm /
NOUN
season between summer and winter
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That added heat helped postpone autumn freeze-up, which in turn extended the melt season.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

An autumn collaboration between Dunkin’ and L.L.Bean includes a sweater for your coffee cup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

He says the heat has started to change the timing of the tourist season, bringing many more visitors during the cooler months of spring and autumn.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Flash fiction, sweeping histories and bold memoirs — discover the highly anticipated fiction and nonfiction our book reviewers are dipping into this autumn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

“It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here. I never had much opinion of the sea air.”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

Tehran, located on the southern slopes of the Alborz Mountains, experiences hot, dry summers, sometimes rainy autumns and winters that can be harsh and snowy.

From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025

The findings point to warmer autumns as a key driver of the shift.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

One wonders how long the USC deep-pocketed people will endure such failed expectations, such fruitless autumns, such ... mediocrity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025

Within a few days, I escalated to blowing leaves out from under the shrubs, and remembered the bucolic autumns of my Midwestern childhood and jumping into leaf piles raked patiently by my grandfather.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

Summers at seal camp were not as beautiful to Miyax as the autumns and winters, for during this season many families from Mekoryuk came to Nash Harbor to hunt and fish and Kapugen was busy.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George




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