winter
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But Cubs fans’ boos were by far the most enthusiastic for the right fielder who’d departed their team in free agency this past winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
So I've been clear: the NHS has to make sure we are preparing for summer pressures now in the same way we prepare for winter.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
An unusually wet winter encouraged dense plant growth across grasslands, shrublands, and forest understories.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
Cool recalled the mayhem of a 1991 European winter tour when the band played 64 shows in three months.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
They have been in hibernation through the winter, and they are hungry beyond caution.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Scientists have said that climate change is likely to bring wetter and milder winters.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Nearly six in 10 Canadians bought a home in Florida, which offers a warm and sunny respite from harsh Canadian winters, the NAR report found.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
El Ninos typically have knock-on effects globally, including drier conditions and drought in Australia, along with wetter winters in East Africa and the southern United States.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
As part of his reporting, he had a Chinese-made MG4 inspected after three Finnish winters and 80,000 kilometers, checking for underbody rust and wear, and found little to complain about.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Used to the bitter winters at Riverbank, they marveled that there was “no ice whatsoever, and no bad wind, and very little snow.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
A particularly steep downturn began in the winter of 2018, when about 30,000 monarch butterflies wintered in California, according to Emma Pelton, a monarch conservation biologist with the Xerces Society.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
“A monarch that wintered in Monterey might end up in Las Vegas or Boise or Spokane that next spring and summer,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
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
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
"The two species do overlap on their high elevation wintering grounds. It's mind-boggling that until now nobody figured out the Giant Hummingbird mystery, yet these two species have been separate for millions of years. "
From Science Daily ● May 13, 2024
Each had gone on to its own ancestral wintering grounds.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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