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Hydroelectric dams have proliferated across Southeast Asia in recent years, but production drops off in the dry season and critics lament the ecological impacts.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

With high pressure showing little sign of moving away, this largely settled and dry weather pattern looks set to continue into early November, with little prospect of any significant rainfall.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Mature sequoias, namely ones that are hundreds of years old, can consume hundreds of gallons of water a day during dry summer days.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

In the longer run, that is “extremely bullish for gold,” he said, adding that Altavest has advised gold bugs “to keep their powder dry until year end.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

T he rest of the liver he cut into strips and set to dry.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

As the ground dries out, crops and vegetation can begin to struggle.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Laundry dries outside of a home along the northern highway in Cuba.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But they are packaged into different tranches in order of who will get repaid first if the money dries up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new way to control how ink dries by adding ultra fine bubbles to ink droplets instead of chemical additives.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

It dries to a fine, superwhite powder— cornstarch.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

That really divided Whigs between drys and wets.

From Slate ● Apr. 5, 2017

So who are the other Washington VIPs queuing up for blow drys, yoga, personal training and makeup application in the comfort of their open concept living rooms?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2015

And while profits from cuts, colouring and blow drys have remained static, in 2012 the salon's hair extension business has grown 60% year on year.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2012

But she nonetheless tells her very fellow drys that she can secure Nucky’s help in doing away with these neighborhood stashes.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2010

The "wets" obsessed by the idea that woman suffrage is "next door to prohibition" used their entire machinery to defeat the amendments, while the "drys" regarded the amendments as distinctly separate questions.

From Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment by Carrie Chapman Catt

However, conditions could become drier and more settled later in the week as high pressure builds.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

But some experts say the current megadrought, which has lasted more than two decades and is intensified by rising temperatures, is part of a long-term shift toward drier conditions in the Southwest.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The drier and warmer theme has also taken hold in India, where the essential monsoon rainfall has been 13% below average.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

That shift in where ocean heat is released into the atmosphere ripples across global weather, making some regions cooler and wetter and others hotter and drier.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

If it’s possible, my mouth goes even drier.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

A country house and farming estate in one of England's driest and most nature-depleted areas has an "abundance" of wildlife with more than 5,000 species recorded, the National Trust has said.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Working from before dawn until midnight, farmers Nikoletta Pajsan Nagy and Laszlo Pajsan fought Europe's driest summer ever to save their red pepper harvest in Hungary.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

July’s 6.5 millimeters of rain in England, about 0.25 inches, was the lowest since records began in 1836 and less than half the next driest July—in 1911.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

In other research, scientists found that the last quarter-century has probably been the driest in 1,200 years in Western North America, and that global warming is responsible for about 40% of the drought’s severity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Akkersons were the driest couple in town.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

As a prolonged cooling period reduced rainfall and dried out the continent, an extinct group of crocodiles adapted to increasingly arid, desert-like environments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Many economists predicted growth would slow after the spring as spending from large tax refunds dried up and the U.S.-hosted World Cup ended.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

A checklist drawn up by the government recommends having nine litres of water per person – enough for three days – along with non-perishable food such as tinned meat and vegetables or dried fruit.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

“California agriculture and Arizona agriculture are getting dried up in favor of water flowing to cities, and that is not a good thing,” says John Boelts, president of the Arizona Farm Bureau.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Clare snatched up a bottle of dried blushers, revealing a rat cowering on the shelf behind it.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

He hopes more work can be carried out at Astonbury Wood to restore the ponds and prevent them drying out completely, as summers "become increasingly hot and dry".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Experts say years of deforestation and the drying out of naturally water-logged peatlands for cultivation has also transformed formerly fire-resistant landscapes.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

As the Mayo Clinic notes, “processing” can include washing, chopping, drying, packaging and a number of other things.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

Natural fibers don’t shed microplastics but they do shed microfibers during washing, drying and everyday wear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

I stay up while the house is quiet, drying clothes by the fire and sewing a rip in Helena’s skirt where I didn’t sew it very well in the first place.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron