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Example sentences for: aridity

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Hence, a warmed environment (and we've seen the ten warmest years on record since 1980) will see both more aridity (due to increased evaporation) and precipitation (when those clouds finally let loose).
A recent study showed that the current La Niña-a one-to-two-year pattern of severe winters in the northern states and aridity in the Southwest-may be part of a decades-long oscillation in the world's climate.
If anything, they veer in the opposite direction--"dumb enough to be a conceptualist," to paraphrase Duchamp--but is banality the only antidote to aridity?