deluge
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"Then the deluge of water just appeared from nowhere. It just shows how quickly it can change."
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
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
The supply deluge and volatility this year have pressured investment-grade AI corporate bonds, which have been trading at a large premium to the rest of the market.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 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
Besides, Lord Nugent soon found himself wondering whether this deluge was altogether natural.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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"My flat's car park was under water -- it never floods, even in 2011" when hundreds of people died across Thailand in heavy deluges, he said, asking AFP not to publish his family name.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
And the careful, steadily reported, once-a-week format may seem like a dinosaur in this hyper-paced timeline where deluges of information accost us every ticking second.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 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
What a climate, to be sure! it blows from the four quarters of the globe all at once, and the rain soaks in and deluges one's very heart's blood.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
The sight of the newborn and her mother being winched to safety by helicopter amid the deluged landscape became one of the defining images of the Mozambique floods of 2000 – the country's worst ever.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
The rain deluged, flooding the girder and running into the aerie.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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“We got to probably 15 and it kind of started deluging, so the greens got a little softer.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
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
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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