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deluge

[del-yooj, -yoozh, del-ooj, -oozh, dih-looj, -loozh] / ˈdɛl yudʒ, -yuʒ, ˈdɛl udʒ, -uʒ, dɪˈludʒ, -ˈluʒ /






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"What does water want?" she asks in her book Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2023

Deluge be damned, Stutzmann turned in one of the most honestly moving Tchaikovsky Sixths that I have heard.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

This story is part of a series, After the Deluge, produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021

The response to the Crash, according to Adam Tooze in his book The Deluge, was deflationary policies were pursued everywhere.

From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017

Confirmation of the Deluge story was found in the fossil shells on high mountain tops; while as for the giants of antediluvian times, there were the huge bones in proof.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward




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