runoff

Example Sentences

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The race will likely end up a runoff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The model suggests that over the next 80 years, the Arctic could experience up to 25% more runoff, 30% more subsurface flow, and increasing dryness in southern areas.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

When Gleick wrote his dissertation at UC Berkeley in the 1980s, he examined a range of climate scenarios and analyzed how rising temperatures would likely change the timing of runoff in Northern California.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

In an effort to stand out and make it through to a June runoff, many candidates are amping up the rhetoric.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

There icy runoff from the eastern snowcaps meets the sun in the west, pouring into a river that feeds the glacier blue lake.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera