weepers
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Even if the rain abates, old asphalt is notoriously difficult to dry because of weepers — the moisture that collects under the surface and then seeps through the cracks after a rainfall.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
He’s also one of the great on-screen weepers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2021
But in America, at least, Capaldi is very much a product of his time: a 2010s balladeer who constructs his weepers around as few sonic distractions as possible.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2019
So Urlacher would join a long list of weepers.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2018
Piccadilly weepers vanished and a depressed little quartet was left on the platform—our two selves, a lean schoolmaster, and an egg-shaped man who never spoke a word.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
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