inundate
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Raising the dam would inundate habitat along the McCloud.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Worryingly, Jones draws a close analogy with the present-day situation as he expects the deluge of planned IPO issuance this year, in the form of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI, to inundate the market completely.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
David Joyce, a Seaport Research Partners media analyst, said part of the reason Tubi has been able to capture audiences—especially young people—is because the platform is easy to use and doesn’t inundate viewers with ads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Mr Weston said "prolonged wet weather meant further rain had nowhere to go other than to inundate our ageing and fragile sewer network".
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
It took about twenty minutes for the spindrift to inundate my bivvy sack—a thin nylon envelope shaped exactly like a Baggies sandwich bag, only bigger—to the level of the breathing slit.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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“But what we’ve seen with these extreme weather events is so much liquid gets into the well that it completely inundates the system and then the pumps no longer function,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2023
Some areas of Florida have been hit with flooding as knee-deep water inundates some coastal towns.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2023
Given that reality, a devastating storm that inundates a large number of structures could force the area to consider where it is safe to rebuild — and where it isn’t.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
“Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” for instance, is smart enough to keep dialogue to a minimum as it inundates the theater with sound and color.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
When the Tiber, according to its frequent habit, rises and inundates the city, the Pantheon is one of the first places to be flooded—the sacristan told us.
From Italian Journeys by William Dean Howells
A GNS Science review of the 2011 disaster reported a 96% survival rate among people in inundated areas and highlighted the importance of education and evacuation procedures.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
“You can’t go to Boyle Heights without being inundated with flies, and the streets are inundated with rats,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
She said her inbox has been inundated with more queries than ever, which she attributes to writers using LLMs to mass-spam agents, and has received submissions that seemed clearly AI-generated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The floods have been particularly severe in parts of Upper Assam, where villages like Charing that do not usually flood have been inundated.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
A textbook example occurred after the eruption in 1980 of Mount St. Helens, in southern Washington State, which inundated more than two hundred square miles with magma, volcanic ash, and mud.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Quakes of that magnitude can even pose a risk of tsunami-like waves on the lake itself, with possible heights of more than 30 feet — capable of inundating many areas near the shoreline.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
He’s omnipresent, completely dominating coverage, constantly in front of cameras and inundating us with round-the-clock Truth Social posts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025
I kind of designed my content to be able to make it easily because I feel like my approach is just inundating you with Kev.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
In Toshima village, some residents have been sleep-deprived and tired, authorities said, as they urged the media to stop inundating locals with queries.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2025
Water surged across the once-dry floor of the sink, inundating farms and settlements, eventually drowning four hundred square miles of desert and giving birth to a landlocked ocean.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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