high summer

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These are attractive storylines and this is the first time since The Open in high summer that this quartet of superstars have all been able to play in the same event.

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2024

The survey was part of a project by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to identify neighborhoods with really high summer heat levels.

From Scientific American • Sep. 24, 2023

Fall colors offer just as much vibrancy for nature lovers as the greens and blues of high summer, and lines dissipate at museums like waves receding at low tide.

From Slate • Sep. 1, 2023

Gale-force winds and high summer temperatures have hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters backed by dozens of water-dropping aircraft as they tackle wildfires breaking out across Greece.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

Today there are different flowers, drier, more defined, the flowers of high summer: daisies, black-eyed Susans, starting us on the long downward slope to fall.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood