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Recent Examples of sunbaked
By mid-morning, the sunbaked terrace is flooded with tourists and townspeople drinking palest rosé before lunch service begins in earnest.
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Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2024
Members of the lineage leading to and including Neanderthals lived roughly 430,000 to 40,000 years ago in environments from Siberia’s tundra to the sunbaked beaches of the Mediterranean.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2024
Precious water As early summer temperatures soar above 90 degrees along the sunbaked beachfront, water has become a precious resource.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024
Bryant grew up piloting motorcycles on the sunbaked terrain of California’s San Gabriel Valley.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
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Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Aug. 2024
Members of the lineage leading to and including Neanderthals lived roughly 430,000 to 40,000 years ago in environments from Siberia’s tundra to the sunbaked beaches of the Mediterranean.
—Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2024
Precious water As early summer temperatures soar above 90 degrees along the sunbaked beachfront, water has become a precious resource.
—Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2024
Bryant grew up piloting motorcycles on the sunbaked terrain of California’s San Gabriel Valley.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
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Southern California fire chiefs cautioned Friday that a season of devastating wildfires is all but guaranteed, amid parched conditions following a dry winter.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent.—
Angus Watson,
CNN Money,
25 June 2025
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For the last half-century, America’s population growth has been concentrated in the sweltering, equal parts bone-dry and waterlogged, yet ever-sprawling Sunbelt.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
7 July 2025
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Central Texas is currently home to some of the worst drought in the United States and bone-dry soils flood very quickly.—
Renée Rigdon,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
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“Sunbaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunbaked. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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