deluge
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Even before stocks feel pain, bonds in the corporate credit market might come under pressure following a deluge of issuance.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
On a 5,500-acre farm near Fresno, grower Don Cameron is prepared for a deluge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands are missing following the deluge on 26 August.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I understand having a deluge of information from many sources and just being confused and having concerns,” Jones said at the news conference.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
That was how everything went after the deluge.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Widespread deluges across the Southeast Asian country in 2011 killed more than 500 people and damaged millions of homes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Flooding has been an annual concern in the area since 2011, as homes have been damaged and swept away by deluges.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025
Shockingly, their analysis suggests the deluges were far larger than the Great Flood, which reshaped much of the Central Valley and Los Angeles Basin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
Right now, dating apps are falling out of favor with those treasured demographics, not least thanks to the prevalence of catfishing impostors and nonstop deluges of fake dating options.
From Slate ● May 17, 2024
We foster and favor our social wastage with the inevitable result that it runs riot under our sheltering hand and deluges us with an ever accumulating flood of its like.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
But the opposite was true: I was deluged with requests for help from people hoping to save their relationships with their friends and loved ones.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
Legitimately good doctors are deluged with referrals and turn away new patients.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Utahns have also deluged Cox with thousands of letters in opposition, while regularly convening on the state Capitol with unflattering signs featuring O’Leary and Cox.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
When it became clear that the company was replacing its original formula rather than offering New Coke alongside it, its Atlanta headquarters was deluged with angry phone calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
For seven days and nights the Putnam was deluged and hammered.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
“We got to probably 15 and it kind of started deluging, so the greens got a little softer.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
Massive storms are increasingly deluging California followed by periods of drought that increase the risk of wildfires.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023
Hurricane Fiona has grown stronger, after deluging Puerto Rico with rain.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
Instead, hundreds of thousands enlisted to fight the Russians, deluging recruiters from the army and the territorial defense force to the degree that many initially had to be turned away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022
On the way into North Hampden, it was all I could do to keep from deluging Henry with questions, but I kept my mouth shut until we got there.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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