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Recent Examples of sere Playwright-screenwriter Alice Birch has composed a superheated adaptation that’s anything but sere. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023 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 Early hominids may have stood up and gotten naked as a way to cope with heat stress on the sere African savanna. Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019 But the western region accounts for a small fraction of the land, which unfolds east from the Cascades in expanses of sere high desert, lush pasture and thick forest. Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2023 As the sere image above suggests, the shortgrass prairie of eastern Colorado is ordinarily a dry place. Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013 Just to the east of the Sierra Nevada lies the sere landscape of the Basin and Range province, characterized by linear mountains and valleys arranged roughly in parallel. Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2018 Here was a tense dialectic that energized his entire career—a tugging between a world of civic engagement, where all pronouncements are dubious, and a sere realm of a lovely, but unsustainable, disembodiment. Brad Leithauser, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022 Thirst becomes the overarching metaphor for human desire in a sere landscape. Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sere
Adjective
  • Encountering one requires a deliberate journey into the arid interior of Australia — a habitat as remote as the species itself.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Global lithium demand, which is expected to grow by 40 times by 2040, could outpace the limited annual rain that supplies freshwater to the arid Lithium Triangle.
    Nidhi Sharma, NBC news, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the Gaslamp, Rustic Root is offering Maryland crab cake Benedict, a 28-day dry aged ribeye and chocolate bread pudding from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
    Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Combine Wet and Dry Stop the mixer and add half of the dry ingredients to the wet, and beat on low speed until most of the flour is incorporated.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Cocktail grapefruit grows wherever conventional grapefruit grows, although fruit quality is best, as with grapefruit generally, in desert or semi-desert conditions.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 27 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Hydrate mask for dry and thirsty hair: on sale for $11 Original price: $22 (Ulta) Sick of dry and brittle hair?
    Christopher Murray, Fox News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • And after 46 years, there was only enough liquid left for a run of 300 bottles—clearly, the angels were very thirsty for their share—which ultimately bottled at cask strength of 46.3 percent ABV.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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

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“Sere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sere. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.

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