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flood

[fluhd] / flʌd /




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Wide-plank hardwood floors run throughout the home, and there are plenty of expansive windows that flood each room with striking natural light.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

But three centuries after it was nearly destroyed by a flood of biblical proportions, vultures now roost in its ruined steeples.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Cook had earlier this year referred to the sudden increase in data centre costs that Apple was seeing as a "thousand year flood."

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

New “American Gothic” parodies, she reports, continue to flood her inbox every week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The buyer of the first tranche was like the owner of the ground floor in a flood: He got hit with the first wave of mortgage prepayments.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Their staff have kept the Slip relatively dry with sandbags and a Shop-Vac, hoovering out the water each morning when it floods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

This isn’t to mention the cash that floods into exchange-traded funds or options markets.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

The state predicts the colder seasons will bring extra powerful storms that risk bringing damage and floods.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

Starlink could bring internet access to remote areas and provide authorities with an emergency backstop in case of natural disasters like the floods that devastated neighboring Nepal in August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Most children in Matilda's place would have burst into floods of tears.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

When Stephanie Young's cat Buddy went missing from her garden in September last year, she flooded pet rescue sites and social media groups with information about him.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Deposed dictators, embezzlers and dissent-crushers have flooded into South Florida like the regular king tides.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026

On Tuesday it flooded both and damaged Next Door Bar’s hardwood floors, which must now be replaced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Condolences flooded in from across Spain and Europe.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

In the morning I woke actually wet, and when I finally sat up in my blankets, I learned it had rained overnight and the basement had flooded.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He said residents were also worried about flooding as the fields currently absorbed "vast amounts of rainwater".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Since late October, on days when tech stocks dropped sharply, investors have been flooding into the roughly $32 trillion U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026

The extensive coastal flooding that swamped Los Angeles and Orange counties recently was influenced by an El Niño-powered global-scale phenomenon known as a Kelvin wave, scientists confirmed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The firm also has hundreds of associates who will be flooding the job market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Then the strangest thing happened: The clouds parted and the sun burst out, flooding the spectacle.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson


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