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Recent Examples of arroyo
Hikers can see California buckwheat, arroyo willow, black sage, big berry manzanita and hairy ceanothus.
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Cathy McGrath is among the closest neighbors to the project, with a home backing onto the mountains and just across an arroyo from where the company intends to move mine tailings.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
The hole is tricky because getting to the green requires hitting over an arroyo, a drainage channel, that has been densely lined with concertina wire.
—J. David Goodman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
For this Sedona house, the intent was to retain water on the property and not overwhelm the arroyo behind it.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Cathy McGrath is among the closest neighbors to the project, with a home backing onto the mountains and just across an arroyo from where the company intends to move mine tailings.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
The hole is tricky because getting to the green requires hitting over an arroyo, a drainage channel, that has been densely lined with concertina wire.
—J. David Goodman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
For this Sedona house, the intent was to retain water on the property and not overwhelm the arroyo behind it.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arroyo
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To fill the lakes, stocks of rainbow trout, golden trout, brown, brook and cutthroat trout, along with Atlantic salmon and grayling were brought in.Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2024
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The property is nestled between a brook and a horse pasture.Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2024
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This process has particularly adverse effects in the watershed, an area of land where runoff drains into a common body of water, leading to high amounts of phosphorus and nitrogen ending up in rivers, streams, and lakes, according to The Watershed Foundation.Charlotte Minnick, Hartford Courant, 20 Dec. 2024
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Regarding contaminated water runoff from the mine site, the company said its internal monitoring of contamination stretching from a historic smelter site known as Helvetia, on the current Copper World property, was detected downhill but fell to background levels after 8 miles.Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 19 Dec. 2024
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The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality noted in a forecast that smoke would move northeast along the Mogollon Rim before lighter overnight winds caused smoke to drain into Horton and Tonto creeks on Tuesday morning.Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 26 Dec. 2024
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The rain could cause flooding in local creeks and heavily paved areas.Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
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Maintenance can also be time- and budget-intensive to keep the foxy-red color fresh.Nicola Dall'Asen, Allure, 28 Sep. 2024
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Paper towels are the secret weapon to keeping produce fresh So don’t be ashamed of paper towel use.Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
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Two and a half feet of rain beat down upon the face of the San Gabriels, wiping out the rustic resorts wedged into the canyons, and chuting runoff waters down onto the plain along ancient dry rivulets and freshets and canyons that Angelenos had forgotten or never known about.Patt MorrisonColumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
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The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks.Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
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Surreal images from the novel that could easily have looked silly on screen—a rivulet of blood winds its way across town, from the home where a character dies to his family’s abode, for example—retain their poetic profundity.Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
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Steaming rivulets of milky turquoise water flowed in channels beside the roadway.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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Earthbound telescopes saw rills or gullies that later proved to be collapsed lava tubes.David Szondy, New Atlas, 16 July 2024
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These rills form as the desiccating winds of the Sahara blow tiny bits of sand across the rock.Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Guiding me into the highlands for red deer, a 300-pound ungulate that lives above timberline amid the picturesque heather, is John Caithness, an affable fifty-something veteran stalker who knows the many hidden coulees and pastures of the estate where stags tend to frequent.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Arroyo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arroyo. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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