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  • At that moment, he chanced to look into one of the puddles left by the night's rainshowers.

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  • But it was redeemed by rainshowers and a delicious sushi dinner.

    Shimmy Shimmy Shake. « Hilarity Ensues 2009

  • Now, there you can see Atlanta, there you can see the rainshowers here pushing eastward and South Carolina, rain may develop later on this afternoon.

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2008 2008

  • That's one hypothesis to explain the mysterious blood-red particles that fell in rainshowers across northern India in 2001: they could be microbes adapted to living in outer space who rode a meteor into the atmosphere and were scattered through rainclouds when the meteor broke apart.

    Archive 2006-05-28 Edward Willett 2006

  • Heavy thunderstorms a possibility, but back out to the west, we're looking at potential of some snowfall in the highest elevation, maybe some rainshowers along the coast.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2008 2008

  • Corpus Christi, you're seeing some heavy rainshowers, down around Brownsville as well -- Fred.

    CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2008 2008

  • Ossmann said it didn't look like the usual sort of funnel cloud because it was embedded in rainshowers at the time of the photograph.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Chuck Wells 2008

  • There is brief talk of going hiking in the nearby mountains, but we are visited by torrential Caribbean rainshowers all day.

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  • On Tuesday, one on-air head expressed a good deal of concern about the possibility that one of Denver's summer afternoon rainshowers might ruin his hairdo: Can we possibly arrange a covered walkway between the stadium and his media tent?

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  • That's one hypothesis to explain the mysterious blood-red particles that fell in rainshowers across northern India in 2001: they could be microbes adapted to living in outer space who rode a meteor into the atmosphere and were scattered through rainclouds when the meteor broke apart.

    Is it raining alien life? Edward Willett 2006

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