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The proposed county ordinance would also create new limits on carrying fire-starting materials, such as lighters, and ban people from removing vegetation in riverbeds or canyons.
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Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
Other examples, collected from riverbeds and fossil sites in South Carolina and Maryland, display similar markings, though the exact reasons behind these bites remain a mystery.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Wiens estimates that the rocks—found in an ancient riverbed and strewn uphill on the rim of Jezero Crater—are several billion years old.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
Dating to the seventh century BCE, the artifact was originally discovered in a riverbed in Greece’s Peloponnese region in 1914 by a curator at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
—News Desk, Artforum, 25 Feb. 2025
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Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2025
Other examples, collected from riverbeds and fossil sites in South Carolina and Maryland, display similar markings, though the exact reasons behind these bites remain a mystery.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Wiens estimates that the rocks—found in an ancient riverbed and strewn uphill on the rim of Jezero Crater—are several billion years old.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
Dating to the seventh century BCE, the artifact was originally discovered in a riverbed in Greece’s Peloponnese region in 1914 by a curator at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.
—News Desk, Artforum, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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