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deluge

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






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Yet U.S. government bonds also now can compete for capital from major technology companies issuing a deluge of longer-dated bonds to finance the artificial intelligence build-out.

From MarketWatch Aug. 31, 2026

Still, it was clear the report would lead to another deluge of negative publicity.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

Over two days, the deluge was equivalent to nearly two million Olympic-size pools of water.

From Salon Aug. 28, 2026

A deluge of material careered towards northern Nepalese towns, including areas popular with mountaineering tourists and pilgrims.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

When he had dug his great chamber and his four emergency exits and his waterproof deluge room, the gopher began to store food.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

And the careful, steadily reported, once-a-week format may seem like a dinosaur in this hyper-paced timeline where deluges of information accost us every ticking second.

From Slate Jun. 5, 2026

In Aceh Tamiang, one of the hardest-hit areas of Indonesia, survivors described villages being entirely swept away by fast-moving deluges.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2025

Torrential monsoon season deluges paired with two separate tropical cyclones last week dumped heavy rain across all of Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia.

From Barron's Dec. 2, 2025

Shockingly, their analysis suggests the deluges were far larger than the Great Flood, which reshaped much of the Central Valley and Los Angeles Basin.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2024

There is no trace of general cataclysms, of universal deluges, or of sudden destructions of a whole fauna or flora.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

But the opposite was true: I was deluged with requests for help from people hoping to save their relationships with their friends and loved ones.

From Salon Jun. 8, 2026

Legitimately good doctors are deluged with referrals and turn away new patients.

From MarketWatch Jun. 3, 2026

Utahns have also deluged Cox with thousands of letters in opposition, while regularly convening on the state Capitol with unflattering signs featuring O’Leary and Cox.

From Slate Jun. 1, 2026

When it became clear that the company was replacing its original formula rather than offering New Coke alongside it, its Atlanta headquarters was deluged with angry phone calls.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

The rain deluged, flooding the girder and running into the aerie.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

The new authorities swiftly loosened Assad-era restrictions, deluging the market with cheaper imports and lifting a moratorium that made dealing with dollars a criminal offense.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2025

“We got to probably 15 and it kind of started deluging, so the greens got a little softer.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 15, 2023

But China’s Covid wave is still deluging its most populous city.

From New York Times Jan. 10, 2023

Massive storms are increasingly deluging California followed by periods of drought that increase the risk of wildfires.

From Reuters Jan. 5, 2023

On the way into North Hampden, it was all I could do to keep from deluging Henry with questions, but I kept my mouth shut until we got there.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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