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In Greek mythology, whose anger was said to cause a great deluge sent to punish humanity?

deluge

[del-yooj, -yoozh, del-ooj, -oozh, dih-looj, -loozh] / ˈdɛl judʒ, -juʒ, ˈdɛl udʒ, -uʒ, dɪˈludʒ, -ˈluʒ /






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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

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

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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