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Recent Examples of bone-dry
That has kept local vegetation bone-dry and highly flammable well into what is supposed to be the rainy season.
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Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Whipped by powerful off-shore winds, and fed by bone-dry brush and vegetation, fires enveloped multiple communities in the greater Los Angeles area beginning on Tuesday, January 7.
—Gavin Feek, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
An overlap of rare climate factors is in part to blame for the rapidly spreading blazes, as the bone-dry region grapples with the worst high wind event in Southern California since 2011, per Axios' Andrew Freedman.
—Avery Lotz, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Climate change — particularly whiplash between two wet winters followed by a bone-dry, unusually hot spring, summer and fall — set the stage for Los Angeles' deadly and devastating fires, scientists say.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Jan. 2025
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Nathaniel Rakich, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2025
Whipped by powerful off-shore winds, and fed by bone-dry brush and vegetation, fires enveloped multiple communities in the greater Los Angeles area beginning on Tuesday, January 7.
—Gavin Feek, Outside Online, 13 Jan. 2025
An overlap of rare climate factors is in part to blame for the rapidly spreading blazes, as the bone-dry region grapples with the worst high wind event in Southern California since 2011, per Axios' Andrew Freedman.
—Avery Lotz, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025
Climate change — particularly whiplash between two wet winters followed by a bone-dry, unusually hot spring, summer and fall — set the stage for Los Angeles' deadly and devastating fires, scientists say.
—Andrew Freedman, Axios, 12 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bone-dry
Adjective
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Eventually, baseball—the sport of sunbaked afternoons, a sport made beautiful and strange by its exposure to the elements—may be unrecognizable.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
2 Nov. 2024
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By mid-morning, the sunbaked terrace is flooded with tourists and townspeople drinking palest rosé before lunch service begins in earnest.—
Sarah James,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Aug. 2024
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The combination of ferocious winds and a parched landscape created ideal conditions for the fast-moving fires that have consumed large swaths of Los Angeles this week.—
Adiel Kaplan,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
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In this case, extremely wet conditions are followed almost immediately by parched weather patterns, typically accompanied by above average temperatures.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For care, the brand recommends using a gentle machine cycle with cold water, then laying flat to air-dry.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Allow it to air-dry and repeat until the stain is gone.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Fire crews moved fast, throwing heavy resources at the fires as Santa Ana winds delivered a big, direct hit on San Diego County, arriving from the east-northeast before dawn and whooshing largely unfettered through arid mountain passes and canyons.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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And precipitation in arid environments is infrequent.—
Jason Bittel,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.—
Tribune Content Agency,
oregonlive,
27 Nov. 2022
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Other eco-friendly measures include a solid waste incinerator to turn waste into non-toxic ash and a waterless urinal to reduce unnecessary usage.—
Camille Fine,
USA TODAY,
22 Aug. 2022
Adjective
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What Happens Next Many wildfires had rapid growth because of dry fuels in Southern California, which were a result of an exceptional, and in some places record-breaking, dry start to the region's wet season.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
30 Jan. 2025
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For dry, cracked lips tormented by the frigid temperatures of winter, the Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask Mini Set is the rescue.—
Alicia Geigel,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Bone-dry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bone-dry. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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