sweltering
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Weyerhaeuser trained an AI model to pore over drone footage and calculate seedling survival rates, which are typically obtained by sending foresters to count twiggy young trees in rugged or sweltering terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
She grew up on the banks of the Magdalena River, near Colombia's largest oil refinery, in a sweltering region long shaped by oil, conflict and poverty.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
On a day of sweltering heat and unpredictable wind, the Englishman moved to 14 under par with an impeccable round helped by a stroke of fortune at the par-three 14th.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Indeed, many were dressed for it, wearing tennis shoes and baseball caps to evade the sweltering sun.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
June 11, 1963, three months before the church bombing, proved a typical sweltering summer day in Alabama.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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