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autumn

[aw-tuhm] / ˈɔ təm /
NOUN
season between summer and winter
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In the latest prediction from the ECMWF, more than half of their forecast models suggest a temperature of over 2.5C by the autumn.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

I scraped the whole mixture into my mini blender with a splash of water and blitzed it into a deep orange paste the color of late autumn leaves or a very expensive velvet couch.

From Salon • May 12, 2026

In the autumn of 1939, Igor Stravinsky stepped onto a stage at Harvard—not to conduct, but to talk.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

If a contest is delayed until the autumn, it gives him more time to find a parliamentary constituency he can stand in and, providing he wins, thereby make his return to Westminster.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

An autumn haze drifted across the stifling late-August schoolroom.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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