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winter

[win-ter] / ˈwɪn tər /
NOUN
cold season of the year
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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But no one foretold that the star to whom the Dodgers agreed last winter to pay an average of $60 million each year would be, well, average.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

They will be kept "snug and warm" in the site's aviaries over the winter months when the attraction is closed, with Jimmy likening his role to the "ultimate hotel service for birds".

From BBC Jul. 19, 2026

“Those higher costs are going to translate into these commodity prices when they’re harvested in the fall and into the early winter and 2027,” Volpe said.

From MarketWatch Jul. 18, 2026

Assistant director Luke Bryant said: "Maybe in the winter when there's really heavy flow they can, but a lot of the time they'll struggle."

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

Here Mama read aloud from Dickens on winter evenings while the coal whistled in the brick hearth and cast a red glow over the tile proclaiming, “Jesus is Victor.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Gillison decided to attend Duke University partly to get away from Ohio winters.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

During El Niño events, warmer waters move toward the west coasts of the Americas, often bringing wetter winters to California.

From Science Daily Jul. 3, 2026

"A few years ago lots of the plants we grow wouldn't normally survive our winters," Dave said.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

A shutdown would have dire consequences: tougher European winters, droughts in South Asia and parts of Africa, and higher sea levels around the North Atlantic.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Venerable he seemed as a king crowned with many winters, and yet hale as a tried warrior in the fulness of his strength.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The couple has wintered in Arizona and returned to Washington in time for the opening of the Sounders season since 2009, the year the club joined MLS.

From Seattle Times Jun. 24, 2023

Some retirees who wintered on the Gulf Coast are already planning their exits from the state.

From New York Times Oct. 10, 2022

In the classic migration pattern, flocks that wintered in the southern U.S. fly north in the spring, returning to the same spots in the high and sub-Arctic to breed and nest.

From National Geographic Dec. 16, 2020

The social pages followed his comings and goings, when he summered in Bar Harbor and wintered in Boca Raton.

From The New Yorker Aug. 19, 2019

There rabbits and ptarmigan gathered to eat seeds out of the wind, and moose wintered on the twigs of the willows.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

After spending the summer in the Hamptons, Icahn is wintering at his house on the Miami-area island known as Billionaire Bunker.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 5, 2025

Each year, billions of songbirds migrate between breeding and wintering grounds.

From Science Daily Nov. 2, 2025

NRW fitted 15 curlew in Wales with GPS tags in 2022, giving researchers a real-time view of their migration from across Europe to important breeding and wintering areas in Wales.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2024

But they have been consistently present off the coast — migrating from their wintering grounds in Mexico and Central America to California in the summer, where they gorge on fish and krill along the coast.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2024

She drew a map on the floor and showed him where the wintering grounds of the caribou lay.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George




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