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In the summer of 1993, record rains in the Midwest caused the Mississippi River to overflow its banks, break through levees, and inundate the entire countryside; such an inundation hadn't been seen for at least a hundred years. By contrast, the Nile River inundated its entire valley every year, bringing the rich black silt that made the valley one of the most fertile places on earth. (The inundations ceased with the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970.) Whenever a critical issue is being debated, the White House and Congressional offices are inundated with phone calls and emails, just as a town may be inundated with complaints when it starts charging a fee for garbage pickup.
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Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 11 Mar. 2025
The system, known as independent dispute resolution, or IDR, has been inundated with hundreds of thousands of cases.
—Noam N. Levey, CNN, 7 Mar. 2025
The work drew support from Democrats and Republicans, who'd been inundated with stories of patients hit by huge bills from emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, and other providers who were not in patients' insurance networks, even when patients received care at in-network hospitals.
—Noem N. Levey | Kff Health News, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2025
Extreme weather leaves deadly wake Flooding has inundated a swath of Southern states over the past 48 hours.
—Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Inundate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inundate. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.
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