deluge
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Black Friday is around the corner, so your inbox will soon face a deluge of tempting travel offers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Sure, there's the requisite deluge of box sets and vinyl variants, a filmed concert for BBC Two, and a handful of interviews, including this one.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Investors absorbed a steady deluge of high-quality debt issued by the big AI “hyperscalers” in 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
The surf was relatively calm, Hogan remarked, and the water pouring down the street and into the storm drains was far from a deluge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
He went on and on until there was such a deluge of words I could hardly keep up.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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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
The broadcaster additionally cited Americans’ continuous deluges of supportive comments when it asked the regulatory agency, in June, to drop its license order.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
In Aceh Tamiang, one of the hardest-hit areas of Indonesia, survivors described villages being entirely swept away by fast-moving deluges.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 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
I paid 4s. 6d. for such wash the other day from Paris, from a man who can prove 300 deluges in the valley of Seine.
From Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin
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
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The new authorities swiftly loosened Assad-era restrictions, deluging the market with cheaper imports and lifting a moratorium that made dealing with dollars a criminal offense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2025
But raging waters were already deluging some highways, farmland and rural communities.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
Massive storms are increasingly deluging California followed by periods of drought that increase the risk of wildfires.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2023
Angry residents are deluging officials with complaints and filing lawsuits, while some leading companies are installing new equipment, making payments to neighbors or even closing down.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2021
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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