as in wet
marked by or abounding with rain found that the stretch of cold, rainy weather made his joints swell and ache

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Recent Examples of rainy The rainy season may shut down some of your favorite attractions, even if only for a few hours. Kimberly Zapata, Parents, 27 Jan. 2025 And the region is rapidly running out of time to catch up on the severe deficit in rainfall before the winter rainy season ends. Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025 San Diego has only gotten 0.14 inches of rain since Oct. 1, leading to the driest start of the rainy season since 1850. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025 Los Angeles has received essentially no rainfall in over 10 months, with the driest start to a rainy season on record, parching soils and vegetation and setting the stage for extreme winds to intensify and spread the fires. Peter H. Gleick, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for rainy 

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“Rainy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rainy. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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