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Default Re: lexical error

Yes - it can, usually when it means long prolonged periods of heavy rainfall, like a monsoon. Some examples :

When the next RAINS come, instead of the forests on the hillside holding ....
With the spring RAINS the flow rose rapidly due to infiltration in open sewers...
... an embankment that had become soft and spongy from the RAINS, ...
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