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- noun Plural form of
monsoon .
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Examples
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They lost millions of dollars worth of sets in monsoons and it never managed to gain that back.
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Our rainy season--- the "monsoons"--- occur in July and August, when New Mexico gets half its yearly rain.
Waiting for the Rain Walter Jon Williams 2007
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Our rainy season--- the "monsoons"--- occur in July and August, when New Mexico gets half its yearly rain.
Archive 2007-08-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007
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Actually the monsoons are the region's primary source of water; the glaciers, while providing only a small portion of the total water supply, are a key source during the dry season.
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Unlike China, 60% of the crop is dependent on the monsoons, which is why the impact of a drought is much greater on India.
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However, for the masses of Rwandan refugees in eastern Zaire already ravaged by civil war, genocide, and cholera, the onset of the monsoons is a new nightmare come true.
The Tragedy of Rwanda Block, Robert 1994
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To the southward, about Benjarmasing, the monsoons are the same as in the
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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In this country the winds, which are called monsoons, blow constantly, or altering only a few points, for six months from the south, and other six months from the north.
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They may thus in our own country be termed monsoons without very regular periods.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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The Aryans were very successful in cultivating the land along the banks of the Ganges River Valley, aided by winds known as monsoons that brought rain from the Indian Ocean.
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