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winter

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


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A typical home uses about 800 gallons each winter, according to Katie Childs, vice president of Tuxis-Ohr’s, a Connecticut supplier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

West, received unusually little snow during winter 2025-2026.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

However, it does bring the increased chance of wet and stormy conditions across north-west Europe during the late autumn and early winter.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

“I know airlines have to look at their winter schedule, where there’s less demand, and start really thinking about what they really want to fly, and where they can really make money.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

There were other concerns, that bitter gray winter.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Wet winters in 2023, 2024 and 2025 helped increase salmon numbers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

"We found loss-of-function mutations in certain genes that regulate circadian rhythms, suggesting they may have adapted to the extreme light cycles of summers and winters in northern latitudes."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026

England is already experiencing wetter winters, something climate models predict will continue.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Ningxia, roughly 600 miles west of Beijing, has thin rocky soil and freezing winters: it wasn’t an obvious place for a winery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Mr. Gault, whose sheep flock we took over when he disappeared two winters ago, only tried to disappear.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

He consulted her remotely when he wintered in Florida; he has also seen his cardiologist and his sleep specialist through telehealth.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021

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

True to their name, they slept and wintered in caves, emerging each spring to blink awake in the Pleistocene sunlight.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 15, 2019

When it continued to zag she realized the pilot was following a meandering river where game wintered.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George

He said there were seasonal restrictions on areas with birthing seals and wintering birds.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

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

Between May and August, thousands of wintering red-billed queleas gather at waterholes in Namibia.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024

Sir Ector sat in the solar, while the wintering sunlight threw broad orange beams across his bald head.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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