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as in cloudless
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as in arid
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Adjective
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This quiet corner of the state sees little light pollution and mostly cloudless nights, making spotting the Milky Way from any part of the park easy.—
Nile Cappello,
AFAR Media,
27 Dec. 2024 -
The sky is blue and nearly cloudless, the temperature is 65 and rising — and one man’s Christmas spirit is about to be broken.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
29 Oct. 2024
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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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With them, the ownership has brought a sunny sense of optimism which often feels unique to Americans.—
Hannah Ryan,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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The drama unfolded during a sunny outdoor reception, as described in a detailed Reddit post this week.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Southern California's climate continues to ping-pong between unseasonably wet conditions, which grow vegetation and unseasonably dry conditions which dry all that out into fire fuel.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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According to one study, even in the extremely dry Martian atmosphere, the climatic conditions inside the volcanoes' craters are such that frost can form even though it's never been found elsewhere on Mars – even at the poles.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Holcomb is not bound by these recommendations and can impose a harsher or milder punishment.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
24 Jan. 2025
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Even if this weekend’s storms, which are predicted to be mild, bring an inch of rain, January would be the fifth driest since record keeping began in 1896, Anderson said.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
24 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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It should be kept in mind that the territory the cession of which is provided for is largely desert and very sparsely inhabited.—
Anonymous,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Oct. 2011
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The ban covers the non-desert regions of Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties and most of Orange County and prohibits outdoor and residential burning of wood and manufactured logs.—
Christian Martinez,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Nov. 2021
Adjective
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Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
6 Dec. 2023
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Seidensticker pointed out Kawabata’s ties to Japanese poetry: This was prose of a sere, haiku-like delicacy and suggestiveness, with much implied and little specified.—
Brad Leithauser,
WSJ,
10 Nov. 2023
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“Rainless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainless. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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