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Recent Examples of arroyo
The bodies of 11 women aged between 15 and 32 were found in an arroyo outside Albuquerque in 2009, after a local walking her dog found a human bone and alerted authorities.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 July 2024
Hikers can see California buckwheat, arroyo willow, black sage, big berry manzanita and hairy ceanothus.
—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
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Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 July 2024
Hikers can see California buckwheat, arroyo willow, black sage, big berry manzanita and hairy ceanothus.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arroyo
Noun
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On July 18, 2019, a Cheshire resident with property abutting Cuff Brook observed dead fish and discolored water with an oily sheen in the brook and smelled a chemical odor similar to lighter fluid, officials said.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
18 Jan. 2025
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At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.—
Gary Greenberg,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Oct. 2024
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The special election, which will feature seven candidates on the ballot, will take place on April 8, but unless one candidate receives a majority of the votes, the two highest vote-getters will advance to a runoff.—
Devan Patel,
The Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2025
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But if no one wins a majority outright, the top two vote-getters will move on to a runoff set for July 1.—
Emily Alvarenga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Jan. 2025
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In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the local carpenter spotted pea-sized flecks catching the sun's rays: small gold nuggets.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA TODAY,
24 Jan. 2025
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Helene’s rains flooded the streams, creeks and tributaries that feed into the Nolichucky, transforming the river into a deadly torrent.—
USA TODAY Graphics team,
USA TODAY,
31 Dec. 2024
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Make sure to maintain proper ventilation and storage conditions to keep your squash fresh.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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Watch: Easy ways to keep your real Christmas tree fresh.—
Laura L. Davis,
USA TODAY,
5 Dec. 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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But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Jan. 2025
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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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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 Jan. 2025.
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