autumn
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She said the summer's heatwaves had been "tough", but they were hoping for a cooler, wetter autumn, with the reserve braced for flood events and "saline surges" with seasonal tides.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Some campaigners are calling for a windfall tax, or to increase the banking surcharge by 5 percentage points back to 8% at the U.K. government budget in autumn.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Strategic Petroleum Reserve last week, bringing the federal inventory of crude oil to its lowest since the autumn of 1982.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Montgomery was killed and Arnold badly injured, and by the autumn of 1776 the British had recovered all the lost territory and then some, driving the Americans deep into present-day Vermont and New York.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Me and Lloyd kicked along in the dust of the road every school morning through countryside rusting with autumn.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Tehran, located on the southern slopes of the Alborz Mountains, experiences hot, dry summers, sometimes rainy autumns and winters that can be harsh and snowy.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
Within a few days, I escalated to blowing leaves out from under the shrubs, and remembered the bucolic autumns of my Midwestern childhood and jumping into leaf piles raked patiently by my grandfather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Just an hour and a half from Los Angeles there’s a mountain community where there are actual seasons: Warm summers, crisp autumns, snowy winters and resplendent springs complete with daffodils all around.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024
Using climate and bee population models, researchers found that increasingly long autumns with good flying weather for bees raises the likelihood of colony collapse in the spring.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Summers at seal camp were not as beautiful to Miyax as the autumns and winters, for during this season many families from Mekoryuk came to Nash Harbor to hunt and fish and Kapugen was busy.
From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George
Vocabulary lists containing autumn
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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