autumn
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But even die-hard college football fans didn’t know Chambliss’s name when he slotted in second on the depth chart last autumn in Mississippi.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"Given the current situation, I do not consider it realistic that the company can drill in the autumn," Greenland Foreign Minister Mute Egede, who is responsible for natural resources, told the territory's broadcaster, KNR.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
The World Meteorological Organization said on July 31 that a “strong El Niño is developing” and was expected to continue strengthening through early autumn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
The government will launch a consultation this autumn to decide how the new measures should be implemented.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
It was a crisp autumn night, and leaves danced in the air, the threat of a storm whispering in the wind.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
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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
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
The story leaps two autumns ahead, when Odd happens along and helps Sook and Buddy as they struggle to haul a tub of chrysanthemums to their porch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Just an hour and a half from Los Angeles there’s a mountain community where there are actual seasons: Warm summers, crisp autumns, snowy winters and resplendent springs complete with daffodils all around.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2024
He had a wife, Nancy, and three children, and his own house, which he had built with his own hands, a small tight adobe that required mudding every two or three autumns.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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Vocabulary lists containing autumn
Figurative Language in King's "I Have a Dream" Speech (1963)
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Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"
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