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summer

[suhm-er] / ˈsʌm ər /


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The NFU said abstraction licences should be made more flexible to enable more water to be taken during these wetter winter months ahead of any dry summer spells.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

It was the fastest increase since last summer.

From MarketWatch Jul. 30, 2026

U.S. natural gas futures settled lower for a fourth consecutive session as the summer progresses with solid production and inventories weighing against weather-driven demand.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned of "difficult days" ahead as the summer heat persists and Greece's usual forest fire season comes into force.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Another thing I liked about summer was that the pigs foraged free.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

All the Met Office experts agree that these hot summers will be more common, grass will be harder to grow, cows will need cooling down.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

From "heatwave simulators" to ecological bootcamps, scientists and conservationists are trying ways to revive and reinforce the famous coral reefs off Japan's Okinawa, decimated by climate-driven bleaching two summers ago.

From Barron's Jul. 29, 2026

Hook died two summers ago at 14, grouchy until the end.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

I drew that potent conclusion from it when I first saw it, before our summers grew hotter and a long-ago sight I’d planned to repeat became something closer to a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

During that time I became friendly with a woman named Dot Vaughan and her family, who lived across the street from my parents’ house during the summers.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Throughout her life, she summered in Maine near Franklin Roosevelt, yet she was among those drawn to “settlement houses.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2026

“This is year three of migration, where the virus seems to be coming back down” via birds who summered in the Arctic and swapped viruses, he said.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2024

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is particularly beloved in Castel Gandolfo, where he joined a centuries-long list of pontiffs who summered at the papal villa overlooking Lake Alban in the hills south of Rome.

From Seattle Times Jan. 3, 2023

Ms. Beary and her friends had been close, having grown up together in south Dublin, and had previously summered in Vancouver, Thailand and Vietnam.

From New York Times Jan. 3, 2022

During the summer break from school, the Gobles worked as live-in help for a New York family that summered in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

I've been summering there for 20 years, probably.

From Salon May 3, 2023

Part of the Quinault Indian Nation, it was traditionally used as summering grounds for salmon fishing, hunting, berry picking and recreation.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2023

Betsy and Andrew, who both grew up summering inshore nearby, shared an appreciation for Maine’s hardscrabble mid-coast working class, the same weatherworn fishermen and farm folk Andrew nearly obsessively depicted.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2022

“The fever has assumed a most alarming appearance,” Rush wrote to his wife, Julia, who was summering in Princeton with their youngest children.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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