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summer

[suhm-er] / ˈsʌm ər /


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As of this summer, that’s down to about 240 barrels per day, according to E&B Natural Resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The state’s coastlines have been inundated with high surf for much of the summer, leading to severe erosion at some of the state’s most popular beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

On Thursday hundreds of prisoners were released early, under new rules introduced to prevent jails reaching capacity, with around 4,500 due to be freed by next summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Forest Service trailhead, and in summer you can see bison grazing near Spanish Creek, along with whitetail deer and occasionally a black bear or moose.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The curfew was now 7:00 p.m., which in spring and summer left no nighttime hours at all in which workers could move legally through the streets.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The three-match contest concludes on Sunday at The Oval - a match that brings down the curtain on one of the most topsy-turvy summers in recent memory.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

"For us farmers, the summers are becoming more and more worrying, because they are getting hotter," he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

She said summers in Aix-en-Provence, where she used to live, had become so hot that her cats were struggling to breathe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

FJ Unger, a 65-year-old entrepreneur, moved to Galicia in northwestern Spain in 2022, drawn in part by the relatively cool summers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

We heard the clanking of the drabware behind us, and turned, startled, to confront a young man of fashionable dress and perhaps twenty summers.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Robert Pluhowski, whose family has summered next door to Duryea’s since the 1970s, said the problem goes beyond Rowan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

“This is year three of migration, where the virus seems to be coming back down” via birds who summered in the Arctic and swapped viruses, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024

Driscoll and her husband summered on the New Jersey shore, in Point Pleasant, until he retired in 1930.

From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2023

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is particularly beloved in Castel Gandolfo, where he joined a centuries-long list of pontiffs who summered at the papal villa overlooking Lake Alban in the hills south of Rome.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2023

The partners at the top firms graduated from the same Ivy League schools, attended the same churches, and summered in the same oceanside towns on Long Island.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

He’s boastfully summering in Italy and reveling in his luxurious wedding on All-In, the podcast that he co-hosts.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2023

Nevertheless, Dorsey, who is also the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, began thinking of acquiring Tidal after summering with his friend Carter in the Hamptons in 2020, according to court documents.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

There's a Black elite that has been summering on Martha's Vineyard since the late 1800s.

From Salon ● May 3, 2023

Apparently, for fun, kids like the ones at Chumley enjoy trapeze arts, yacht sailing, Formula One go-kart racing, summering in the winter, horseback riding, and fashion accessorizing.

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein




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