runoff
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They predicted the reservoirs will keep setting records every day until snows come and bring the next seasonal pulse of runoff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The process requires washing large amounts of the potentially tainted food to remove the cyclospora organisms, reducing the runoff, and then testing it to see if the parasite was present.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Instead, since February, he has voted in Collin County twice: once in the March Republican primary and once in the May runoff.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Keiko Fujimori won the June 7 presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling leftist Roberto Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
It had rained the night before, and the only sound was the gurgle of the runoff pouring down through the eroded gullies on the hillside.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
Vocabulary lists containing runoff
Electoral Elocution: The Verbiage of Voting
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