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floods

  • plural
    of flood.
    flood
    noun
    a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.
  • present tense form
    of flood (3rd person singular).
    flood
    noun
    a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.

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CBP activity along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas has generated bipartisan criticism from elected officials who say construction could cause floods, threaten the area’s tourism industry and damage historic Native American sites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Aparcedo and her family spent three years in a shelter following the floods before being relocated to a public housing project — which toppled in the June earthquake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Latiao were created in Pingjiang in 1998 as an emergency staple food, after devastating floods wiped out the local soybean crop.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

They can detect coming danger like earthquakes or floods because their senses deliver facts: a sound, a smell, the change of the wind.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

They were now downstream of the dam, but what they hadn’t realized was that it would hold back the seasonal floods that had once ensured yearly prosperity in the Lower Volta.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo