deluge
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The result is that recruiters are struggling to identify qualified candidates amid a deluge of AI-generated résumés.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
On a 5,500-acre farm near Fresno, grower Don Cameron is prepared for a deluge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Nepal's former Energy Minister Kulman Ghising, who called the catastrophic deluge a "once-in-a-century" event, says it holds lessons for designing plants and picking sites where they are built.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
He pointed not only to the deluge of expected corporate bond supply, but also more potential mega IPOs after a nerve-racking summer for the Treasury market.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
It was not quite the deluge of the previous year, but it rained more days than not for the rest of October and into November.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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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
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
This means the increased risk of flooding, with ground becoming saturated by persistent winter rainfall and drainage systems overwhelmed by summer deluges.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
The rain storms are downpours and deluges that are blinding, but they leave behind their inky tracts a paradise of beauty and bloom.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth
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
Utah officials have complained that the state has been deluged with constitutional challenges.
From Slate ● May 4, 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
Then I'm deluged in lemony foam that I have to scrape off with a heavy bristled brush.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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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
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
Wednesday evening, up to 2 to 4 inches of rain fell in less than two hours — deluging Washington, D.C.'s northern suburbs.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 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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