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been drought
noun
A period of below average rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
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The biggest challenge has been drought.
Last year, we had massive floods; this year, it has been drought.
The storm was particularly jarring to a region that has been drought stricken and has not seen this kind of snow in a long time.
"The humanitarian disaster has been drought and famine affecting both countries," said Martin Hill, the Amnesty International researcher in London who follows the wars on the Horn of Africa.
There has been drought in the US, poor rainfall in Russia and South America and a dry monsoon in India, all of which have had a major impact on the world's most important food crops and consequently food prices.
Offspring whose parents had been drought treated had higher root-to-shoot ratios even under control watering conditions (Fig. 5A).
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This meant that the ground, which has been drought-ridden for the past few years, is now fully saturated and incapable of storing more water.
That something is drought.
They're drought tolerant.
And so, unfortunately, is drought.
Now it was drought, not war, that was the problem.
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