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winter

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


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He told the BBC they had fallen into "energy debt" and were concerned about this coming winter.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

As the El Niño weather event in the Pacific Ocean continues to intensify it has been linked to wetter and stormier weather in the UK during late autumn and early winter.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

"We have to use this time to get things done... we're pruning the rose bushes for winter," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

With the winter meetings in December expected to be canceled because of a lockout, GM meetings likely will be the one time for baseball operations leaders to all gather under the same roof this offseason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

On cold winter nights and days grouse make small caves in the snow to keep from freezing and if they are caught in the caves they can be taken.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Under the proposal, clocks would move an hour forward in March as they normally do, but then would remain there indefinitely, meaning later sunrises and more evening daylight in the winters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

The winter of 2025 to 2026 ranked among Switzerland's ten least snowy winters since records began, leaving glaciers with less snow to protect them from warmer temperatures.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Climate modelling shows that Scotland can expect hotter, dryer summers and milder, wetter winters by the end of this century.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

The treadmill offered an escape from Ohio’s winters, but he quickly found other advantages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Besides, she’d climbed with covered hands plenty of times when the Ketterdam winters had turned her fingers numb.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

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

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

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 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

“You’re going to see so many new things and meet so many new animals and if there are any squirrels at your wintering grounds please tell them that Chitchat says hello!”

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown


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