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Recent Examples of culvert
The forest is home to cliffs, sinkholes, caves, culverts, and creeks and rivers – all of which complicate the hunt for Couch.
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Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
Cliffs, sinkholes, caves, culverts, creeks, rivers and dense brush are complicating the manhunt for the Laurel County shooting suspect, Pennington said, along with wildlife such as venomous snakes.
—Connor Giffin, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Pennington likened the woods around the area to a jungle, with cliff beds, sinkholes, caves and culverts.
—Bradford Betz, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2024
River banks and culverts may also become unstable and unsafe.
—Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2024
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Zoe Sottile, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024
Cliffs, sinkholes, caves, culverts, creeks, rivers and dense brush are complicating the manhunt for the Laurel County shooting suspect, Pennington said, along with wildlife such as venomous snakes.
—Connor Giffin, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2024
Pennington likened the woods around the area to a jungle, with cliff beds, sinkholes, caves and culverts.
—Bradford Betz, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2024
River banks and culverts may also become unstable and unsafe.
—Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for culvert
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This week's episode, which aired on TV Wednesday and was available to Paramount+ subscribers Thursday morning, saw competitors cross an arctic lake in kayaks and hold their bodyweight to cross a ravine in a zipline-style challenge.Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
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From there, a bridge spans a short ravine into one of the lushest and most wooded portions of the trail.Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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Officials added that a piece of smoldering material may have been blown into an adjacent, dry gully and caused the rekindling.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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Water surged over a gully running through the Valencian town, ripping apart roads and tearing down walls of homes.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Seven miles into her drive, police said, her car suddenly veered left across the straight two-lane road, smashing into a concrete ditch.Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Good post for a mid- to late-November afternoon: 70 to 100 yards back in timber and along the thickest, nastiest ditch that leads out to crops. 59) Don’t waste precious rut-hunting time.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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Look for blazer-like details like the ones in Aritzia’s The Constant coat, or the sharp lines punctuating Another Tomorrow’s double-faced trench.Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2024
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Now, after Musk confirmed a bitcoin and crypto price game-changer, traders and analysts are speculating whether Musk wading back into the bitcoin trenches of X increases the chances of a U.S. bitcoin strategic reserve.Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Saturate the soil completely, letting the excess drain out.Heather Bien, Southern Living, 10 Dec. 2024
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But their smiles soon turned into frowns when Mack's diamond engagement ring fell down a sewer drain.Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
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“Culvert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/culvert. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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