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Recent Examples of deposition
In his underlying petition, the rapper had sought oral depositions of iHeartMedia corporate representatives.
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
Typically, carbonates like limestone are used to track these isotope signatures, but they can be altered after deposition, leading scientists to explore alternative archives.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
The letter also asked Carlos Pino to take care of their father, Carlos said during his deposition.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
This process is repeated many times in a series of etching, doping, and deposition steps to create up to one hundred layers; the patterns in those layers end up defining the circuitry of a computer chip.
—Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
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Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
Typically, carbonates like limestone are used to track these isotope signatures, but they can be altered after deposition, leading scientists to explore alternative archives.
—Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
The letter also asked Carlos Pino to take care of their father, Carlos said during his deposition.
—Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
This process is repeated many times in a series of etching, doping, and deposition steps to create up to one hundred layers; the patterns in those layers end up defining the circuitry of a computer chip.
—Jayson Stewart, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deposition
Noun
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There is 130 years of heavy toxic sediment in the soil of the river.—
Courier-News,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Mar. 2025
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Over the course of seven years, scientists stationed at Camp Century drilled the first core of ice that captured the full thickness of the ice sheet — a depth of 4,560 feet (1,390 meters) — and included some sediment from the ground below.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN,
15 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Gold is abundant in the region, which also has rich deposits of rare metals such as coltan, used to make capacitors, and niobium, used to make superalloys for jet engines and hypersonic missiles.—
Emmet Livingstone,
The Dial,
20 Mar. 2025
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Yet, without these natural nitrate deposits, American war efforts would have suffered.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The diver's representative, Ian Costello, said the car was covered in salmon guts, silt and mussel shells.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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The workers were about nine miles inside the tunnel on Saturday morning when the roof collapsed after a rush of silt and water, according to local officials and news reports.—
Ali Watkins,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Deposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deposition. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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