inundate
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In a cruel twist, a phenomenon that can inundate the Eastern U.S. can fuel heat, fire, and drought elsewhere.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
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
“Can we not inundate this amazing young woman with our masculine vitriol on her birthday?”
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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Checking air quality and staying indoors when smoke inundates the Seattle area has become second nature during Washington’s wildfire season in recent years.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
The scene switches to a rehearsal, in which Isakovic inundates her with notes on a structured improvisation, demanding “relaxed twitching” and insisting she crawl into the audience.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2024
“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
Gorki inundates one’s consciousness with these human fortunes and misfortunes of his tenement basement.
From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett
“Amid being inundated with synthetic influencers, AI-generated music, and various streams of slop, our instinct is to believe everything we see is default fake,” the strategist Anu Lingala wrote in her Substack, What’s Anu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026
"Like digital memes, there may be limits to its attentional staying power, especially as we become more and more inundated with AI slop."
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
The intersection of Coast Highway and Broadway was inundated with water from big waves and high tides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Every time I open TikTok lately, I’m inundated with Kalshi ads beckoning me to bet on “Dancing with the Stars.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
A car is tossed like a tub toy by a wave that inundated the North side of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Plans call for two large dams about 300 feet high, as well as nine smaller ones, holding water pumped from the Sacramento River and inundating about 15,000 acres in a valley northwest of Sacramento.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
But despite the clips inundating your Instagram feed, your chance of getting bitten is still small—less than one in four million, said Gavin Naylor, director of the University of Florida’s shark-research program.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
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
As the storm brushed past Hong Kong, steep waves crashed into land, inundating coastal areas, alongside powerful winds and rain, leaving more than 60 people injured.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025
Future searches will be difficult: thousands of years ago, the melting glaciers raised the seas, inundating coastal settlements, if they existed.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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