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autumn

[aw-tuhm] / ˈɔ təm /
NOUN
season between summer and winter
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Temperatures are set to drop across the UK during the week ahead, bringing an end to a run of warmer-than-average autumn weather.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Booths were adorned with strings of dried red peppers -- the raw ingredient used to make paprika -- recalling a sight once common on houses in the surrounding countryside every autumn.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

With the super El Niño expected to peak over the next few months, the Met Office has already suggested that the rest of autumn and into the start of winter, will be warmer than average.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The bears of Katmai spend summer and early autumn gorging themselves on salmon as they look to bulk up ahead of a long winter of hibernation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

It was the beginning of autumn when Sadako rushed home with the good news.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr

The Russian leader also used a Chinese idiom to express to Xi how much he had missed him: “A day without you feels like three autumns have passed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

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

The findings point to warmer autumns as a key driver of the shift.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

One wonders how long the USC deep-pocketed people will endure such failed expectations, such fruitless autumns, such ... mediocrity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2025

No raindrop falls in the storms of autumn that ever fell before, and the rain has fallen, and falls, and will fall throughout all the autumns of the years.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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