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autumn

[aw-tuhm] / ˈɔ təm /
NOUN
season between summer and winter
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On a dreary autumn day in 2022, Sarah Perry and her husband, Robert, were waiting for David, Robert’s father, at a department store in Norwich, England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

With the super El Niño expected to peak over the next few months, the Met Office has already suggested that the rest of autumn and into the start of winter, will be warmer than average.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

While the gilt market took Burnham’s fiscal plans in its stride, investors will want to see the arithmetic in the October 28 autumn budget, Monex Europe analysts said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

From fairytale toadstools to fungi that look like birds' nests, experts say some of Britain's most unusual mushrooms are beginning to emerge as autumn arrives.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Me and Lloyd kicked along in the dust of the road every school morning through countryside rusting with autumn.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Two autumns ago, Zelma Redding and her family invited us to their big old ranch outside Macon, and we had an afternoon in the great man’s study.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

The Russian leader also used a Chinese idiom to express to Xi how much he had missed him: “A day without you feels like three autumns have passed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

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

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

No raindrop falls in the storms of autumn that ever fell before, and the rain has fallen, and falls, and will fall throughout all the autumns of the years.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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