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were droughts
noun
A period of below average rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
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There were droughts.
There were droughts, earthquakes, wildfires scattering animals like dice.
There were droughts, but Ahmed's family always rode them out, losing some cattle, and then slowly rebuilding the herds.
There were droughts and freak accidents and other crimes of passion, and there were good things that happened, too.
This was mainly done by the government whenever there were droughts and floods.
"These mega-droughts during the 1100s and 1200s persisted for 20, 30, 40, 50 years at a time, and they were droughts that no-one in the history of the United States has ever experienced," said Ben Cook from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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The drought tolerance indices used were drought susceptibility index (DSI) and drought tolerance efficiency (DTE).
The remaining plants were drought stressed by withholding water.
That something is drought.
They're drought tolerant.
The biggest challenge has been drought.
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