deluge
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Deluge in California: The blazes in Chile were likely worsened by El Niño, the cyclical climate pattern that also may have worsened the damage from a record-breaking storm in California.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2024
The Deluge, by contrast, spans continents and careens through decades' worth of nightmarish scenes that feel like they were made for Hollywood.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2023
This story is part of a series, After the Deluge, produced with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2021
Despite its fragility and scale, it holds its own in a room themed around the conflicts of the 1970s opposite Philip Guston’s magisterial painting Deluge II, made at the same time.
From The Guardian • Oct. 16, 2019
Of all traditions relating to the history of primitive humanity, by far the most universal is that of the Deluge.
From The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 by Various
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