wet
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Forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which announced in June that El Niño had arrived, predict this iteration will be “very strong,” bringing a greater promise of a wet winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"I love it under here, when it's raining you can walk to the shops without getting your hair wet."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Note: If the ricotta seems especially wet, drain it in a fine-mesh sieve before whipping.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
The competition—known as the May Bumps, despite occurring in June—is a wet and wild demolition derby in the shadows of England’s most storied halls of learning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Her face was red and wet, but it got redder, and her sad eyes narrowed to angry slits.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
While El Niño brings colder and wetter conditions to the Southern U.S., it typically generates drier and warmer weather up north.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
During its tenure, El Niño often brings wetter conditions to the Southern United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
El Ninos typically have knock-on effects globally, including drier conditions and drought in Australia, along with wetter winters in East Africa and the southern United States.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Instead, it repeatedly shifted between wetter and drier conditions under the influence of orbital forcing tied to precession cycles.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
‘Are they here just because it’s wetter in this place and so causeways and canals are needed?”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
July is Mexico City's wettest month of the year, so when England headed to altitude last Sunday they would have felt at home - 18C and rain.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Attention is now turning to July, the wettest month of India's monsoon season.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
At the moment it looks like the wettest of the conditions will be across northern and western parts of the UK with drier conditions further south and east.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
His www.weathertrends360.com External link forecasts show that “This year we have it even wetter, and by late Summer-Fall we have it the wettest for the U.S. in 8 years.”
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
As for Japan’s climate, its rainfall, ranging up to 160 inches per year, makes it the wettest temperate country in the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
What is the point of the full wets?
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024
As light rain wets pavement across Western Washington Thursday, temperatures will moderate in the mid-40s.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Roblox or a Baby Alive that wets its diaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Hauser has found that people will give their lawns a quick watering in the morning and evening, but that can be a wasted effort that wets the soil’s surface and doesn’t get to the roots.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2021
She wets a rag and places it under my neck and after awhile the bleeding stops.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
According to the City of Seattle, both unwanted fireplace ash and BBQ coals should be cooled, wetted, bagged and disposed of in the trash.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
It’s great spectator sport, and if you’re willing to be wetted with spray for long enough, you can see a man haul in a striped bass that measures from his shoulder to his ankle.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2020
Yet, just as they would for a big game involving the Giants or Jets, the fans remained, their enthusiasm only whetted, not wetted down.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2018
Amor y Tacos is famous for Ortega’s interpretation of Dodger Stadium’s infamous Doyer Dog, a full pound of crisp-skinned hot dog on an oversized bun wetted with short-rib chile, mayonnaise and mustard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2017
When Francie got back, papa had shaved, wetted his hair down, shined his shoes and put on a clean undershirt.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
But at Dilley, she regressed behaviorally, wetting herself after years without accidents and begging to breastfeed again despite being 6 years old.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2026
You never want to be their target, but watching their vicious crowd work from a safe distance mainly places you in danger of wetting yourself with a spit-take.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2026
How old were you when you stopped wetting your bed?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025
In that context, it's hard to imagine the sport getting to a place collectively where artificially wetting the track is considered something acceptable.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
The stream was shallow enough for Robin to go across on foot and the little wetting he got was nothing after swimming the river.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
