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The shocking incident barely registered in the US news, dominated that balmy July 2 night by the wedding of pop superstar Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden on the other side of Manhattan.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Flags can appear in the spirit of those balmy emotions – cue the World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

In lower-income importing countries, it manifests as shortages: Bangladesh has limited air conditioning to a balmy 77 degrees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

I got there on a balmy afternoon, beheld Chicken Boy’s beak gleaming in the sun, and knew my mission was complete.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

It was a balmy summer evening, perfect for the motorcycle, and Shawn said I should ride home with him, we’d get the car tomorrow.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Unfortunately, the same draws that make it a walkable gawk for touristas of every stripe makes it a frustrating exercise in perambulation for locals — kind of like New York’s Times Square with balmier weather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024

And that was balmier than had been predicted.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022

Weather patterns can change because the colder poles warm faster than balmier lower latitudes.

From Economist ● Jul. 28, 2018

This winter’s extreme warmth was, in part, driven by an unusual number of storms in the Atlantic that brought balmier air to the Arctic.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018

The air is decidedly balmier, but that's not all; there's a kind of buzzing energy.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Residents in Warsaw enjoyed the balmiest start to the year since 1999, with a high of 66 degrees Fahrenheit.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

In London, where the lifting of restrictions coincided with the balmiest weather of the summer, sunbathers near Liverpool Station voiced a mixture of relief and anxiety as the country ventured into uncharted territory.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

Their last studio album, 2011′s Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, piped up with some of the balmiest major key tunes Mogwai’s crafted to date.

From Time ● Jan. 24, 2014

Even an idyllic setting, one of the balmiest Paris springtimes in memory, and France's justly famed cuisine may do little to palliate what—judging from the seemingly interminable preliminaries—is likely to be a depressing, long-drawn ordeal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tell me, why, my sweetest dove, Thus your humid pinions move, Shedding through the air in showers Essence of the balmiest flowers?

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti