niño

[nee-nyaw, neen-yoh]

noun

Spanish.

plural

niños 

1. boy; child.

Niño

1. See El Niño

Example Sentences

La Niña, and its warm sibling El Niño, are natural patterns, although research published this week highlighted that global warming could itself impact the swings between them.

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The previous La Niña — active from January until about April of this year — “was a substantial player” in the region’s dry winter, said Emily Becker, research associate professor at the University of Miami who studies the El Niño Southern Oscillation ,or ENSO.

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Conditions oscillate between La Nina and its opposite, El Nino, with neutral phases in between.

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Temperatures have remained at record or near-record levels even after El Nino conditions faded last year -- with 2024 the hottest year on record.

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Seven years later, the Italian designer Nino Cerruti hired Armani as an assistant designer.

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