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"Peat is a naturally wet ecosystem and stores large amounts of organic material. When peat is drained, this organic material is converted into fuel," Pantau Gambut spokesman Wahyu Perdana said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

In Southern California, El Niño is associated with warm and wet conditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

She's been known to post videos demonstrating her beauty products – often with wet hair, seemingly filmed in her bathroom.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Garreaud pointed to the strengthening El Niño as an important backdrop to the unusually wet winter unfolding across north-central Chile.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Quietly, Renn retrieved the bows and brushed off the wet.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Late winter and early spring had actually been wetter than normal across the U.S.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Cooler and wetter conditions forecast for Europe may provide some relief to farmers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The upshot is hotter and drier conditions in some places, cooler and wetter in others.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

The rover has found chemical traces left behind by this wetter period, including carbon-based molecules believed to be precursors to RNA and DNA, two nucleic acids that carry genetic information.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026

Their clothes, as they got wetter, became heavier, so it was a strange, slow game.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

For some areas that have seen barely any rain so far this August, the next few days could bring the wettest weather in many weeks.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The winter of 1982-83 was California’s wettest in 131 years of record-keeping, according to Alex Tardy, a former meteorologist for the National Weather Service office in San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

Aultbea in the Scottish Highlands has recorded 389.6mm of rain so far this summer - more than one and a half times the seasonal norm, and only 10.2mm short of its wettest summer on record.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

In the Highlands and Western Isles, the wettest parts of Scotland, more than a month and a half's worth of rain has fallen.

From BBC ● May 1, 2026

I dried myself, changed, combed my hair, and spread out some of my wettest clothing to dry.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

At night, she now wets a hand towel and lays it across the end of her bed.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023

“The hots are getting hotter … the dries are getting a lot drier ... and the wets are getting a lot wetter,” Newsom said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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 my hair, working up a lather and then rinsing it with cups of warm water.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

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

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

Also, as wetted peripheries of the lakes and streams contract and expand in response to climate variation, opportunities for exchange may increase.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2012

I bunched my wet socks into my pocket, which immediately wetted my pants.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

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 dripping branch was shaken above my head and drops of water wet my face and scalp, some of it rolling down my neck and wetting my back, like insects crawling.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright