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summer

[suhm-er] / ˈsʌm ər /


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This lessens the risk of flooding, but reduced rainfall can leave groundwater and river levels low, fuelling drought and wildfires in spring and summer.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

“I see a summer down the road of songs and a silver sea,” Bono sings in “Can’t Stop Us Now,” “Where the rainbow refuses the gold, and that’s revolutionary.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

“That could certainly be having an impact here,” Jim Ferraioli, head of crypto research at Charles Schwab, said in reference to the selling in bitcoin this summer ahead of the SpaceX IPO.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

This is a summer of changes, starting with the list of visitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Something major had happened to those strands over the summer, but now April had arrived with me no closer to solving the mystery.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

One of the priorities in its management plan announced last month was adapting to "warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers".

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

James G. Reichert is a writer in Savannah, Ga., who spends summers in Scotland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Holmes frequently related how she grew up spending summers and holidays with her uncle, who she adored.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Some have wanted to escape Washington’s notorious humid summers, while others longed to flee the cold and create a “winter White House” in warmer climes.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

But one of those summers I experimented with rodeo.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen

Robert Pluhowski, whose family has summered next door to Duryea’s since the 1970s, said the problem goes beyond Rowan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The girls who summered on Nantucket and eschewed carbs?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2024

Grubauer said he was the only Kraken player who stuck around home base all offseason, with its top-of-the-line facilities, strength coaches and medical staff who aren’t available to him if he summered at home.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

Driscoll and her husband summered on the New Jersey shore, in Point Pleasant, until he retired in 1930.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

They are primarily animals of the plains, and in winter when the first snows come those that have summered in the mountains move down to the lower elevations.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Wendy Schlotterbeck, a neighbor who had been summering on Hupper Island since the days when it had no docks or electricity, grew upset at the sight of the chief justice’s celebrating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Here are five other films where summering at a country house leads to significant power imbalances and lifelong consequences.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

He’s boastfully summering in Italy and reveling in his luxurious wedding on All-In, the podcast that he co-hosts.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023

Nevertheless, Dorsey, who is also the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, began thinking of acquiring Tidal after summering with his friend Carter in the Hamptons in 2020, according to court documents.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

She’d been fourteen, and her family had been summering on the coast of West Ravka, enjoying the seaside and performing in a carnival on the outskirts of Os Kervo.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo


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