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Adjective
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The delegations, escorted around town and guarded by scores of Swiss police, met for at least a dozen hours on both days of the weekend at a sunbaked 18th-century villa that serves as the official residence of the Swiss ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
13 May 2025 -
In a sunbaked Vatican City, huge crowds of devoted faithful stood for hours in a section beyond the neat rows of cardinals, who remained seated in their colorful robes and hats.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
7 May 2025
Adjective
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Southern California fire chiefs cautioned Friday that a season of devastating wildfires is all but guaranteed, amid parched conditions following a dry winter.—
Rebecca Ellis,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2025
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In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent.—
Angus Watson,
CNN Money,
25 June 2025
Adjective
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For the last half-century, America’s population growth has been concentrated in the sweltering, equal parts bone-dry and waterlogged, yet ever-sprawling Sunbelt.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
7 July 2025
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Central Texas is currently home to some of the worst drought in the United States and bone-dry soils flood very quickly.—
Renée Rigdon,
CNN Money,
7 July 2025
Verb
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The Table Rock Fire in Pickens County, northwest South Carolina, ignited Friday and has grown to more than 1,300 acres, the commission said in a Sunday night update.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
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The fire ignited last week but grew rapidly over the weekend, fueled by low humidity and dry vegetation, officials said.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2025
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The return to fighting has inflamed the debate in Israel over the fate of those held captive.—
Sam Mednick,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Mar. 2025
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The firing of five probationary employees with the hurricane hunters in late February enflamed those concerns.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA TODAY,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Baked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baked. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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