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nimbus clouds

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  1. The dark clouds characteristic of storms.


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Radar domes, used for military surveillance, floated like nimbus clouds.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2023

She can create hovering nimbus clouds of harmony with the best of them.

From New York Times • Feb. 11, 2021

Mateo points out the dark nimbus clouds, and I’m straight wowed I get to live in this moment with someone who doesn’t deserve to die.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

Looming through the tall windows along the back wall, dark skies were crammed with nimbus clouds.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

It was bitterly cold in the crow's-nest however much one put on then, and water skies often turned out to be nimbus clouds after we had laboured and cannoned towards them.

From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

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