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
So Urlacher would join a long list of weepers.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2018
He included weepers like Patsy Cline’s “I Fall to Pieces,” a favorite with the audience that often spurred lonely hearts to do just that.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 31, 2018
Not punishing workplace weepers is only half of the solution.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2016
Well, here we are, in the very midst of bells and bonfires, screaming for joy, in honor of the new year, with our spandy new weepers on, for the old one.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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