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balmy

[bah-mee] / ˈbɑ mi /




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But the temperature in Lake Annecy in the summer is a balmy 25C to 27C.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The shocking incident barely registered in the US news, dominated that balmy July 2 night by the wedding of pop superstar Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden on the other side of Manhattan.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

Florida, with its high concentration of wealth, no state income tax, pro-business policies and balmy weather, has drawn an unusually large number of disaffected California tech moguls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026

That’s because the global maps most of us are used to are as deceptive as icy Greenland’s euphemistically balmy name.

From Slate ● Jan. 21, 2026

Might it be a balmy, summer planet, a little warmer than the Earth because it is a little closer to the Sun?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Unfortunately, the same draws that make it a walkable gawk for touristas of every stripe makes it a frustrating exercise in perambulation for locals — kind of like New York’s Times Square with balmier weather.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2024

And that was balmier than had been predicted.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2022

Weather patterns can change because the colder poles warm faster than balmier lower latitudes.

From Economist ● Jul. 28, 2018

This winter’s extreme warmth was, in part, driven by an unusual number of storms in the Atlantic that brought balmier air to the Arctic.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018

The air is decidedly balmier, but that's not all; there's a kind of buzzing energy.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

Residents in Warsaw enjoyed the balmiest start to the year since 1999, with a high of 66 degrees Fahrenheit.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

In London, where the lifting of restrictions coincided with the balmiest weather of the summer, sunbathers near Liverpool Station voiced a mixture of relief and anxiety as the country ventured into uncharted territory.

From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

Their last studio album, 2011′s Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, piped up with some of the balmiest major key tunes Mogwai’s crafted to date.

From Time ● Jan. 24, 2014

There are also, intercut with fact, many of the best and balmiest fictions of the time: James Cagney, ever brash and streetwise, pushing mugs around; King Kong poking his head up through the el tracks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Coming so late as it did, it was a kind of Indian summer, with a mist in its balmiest sunshine, and decay and death in its gaudiest delight.

From House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne




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