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also drouths
as in shortages
a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number
there's been a drought of good movies this year
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Recent Examples of droughts
In the 1960s, Lucas’s grandparents discovered an artesian spring on the farm by surveying a spot in the woods where the cows headed during droughts.
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Colette Coleman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Weather patterns like droughts fueled by climate change have disrupted major coffee growers like Brazil, reducing supplies of coffee beans.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2025
Climate change is bad news for a lot of reasons—the droughts, the floods, the heat, the hurricanes.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
After months of waiting – as well as one of the worst droughts in recent history – the money arrived in May 2024.
—Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
When droughts occur, humans have been known to dance and pray for rain to return.
—Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Communities across the country have used program funds to help their cities and towns mitigate disasters, such as raising roads to keep them out of floodwaters or building underground storage units to prepare for droughts.
—Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Earlier snowpack melt, along with an increase in rainfall, could start to impact water availability and cause potential snow droughts, possibly warranting a revamping of water management strategies in the coming years.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
There now is widespread understanding that the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere is making hurricanes, droughts and wildfires more intense.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Colette Coleman, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Weather patterns like droughts fueled by climate change have disrupted major coffee growers like Brazil, reducing supplies of coffee beans.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2025
Climate change is bad news for a lot of reasons—the droughts, the floods, the heat, the hurricanes.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
After months of waiting – as well as one of the worst droughts in recent history – the money arrived in May 2024.
—Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
When droughts occur, humans have been known to dance and pray for rain to return.
—Tracy Scott Forson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Communities across the country have used program funds to help their cities and towns mitigate disasters, such as raising roads to keep them out of floodwaters or building underground storage units to prepare for droughts.
—Rebecca Santana, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
Earlier snowpack melt, along with an increase in rainfall, could start to impact water availability and cause potential snow droughts, possibly warranting a revamping of water management strategies in the coming years.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2025
There now is widespread understanding that the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere is making hurricanes, droughts and wildfires more intense.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
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“Droughts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/droughts. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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