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Recent Examples of floodplain
Insurers can use their unique insights into risk to shape effective policies, including stronger building codes, floodplain management, and cutting carbon pollution, all of which prevent or reduce losses from extreme weather events.
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Mindy Lubber, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
The 1,600-acre former floodplain is great for hiking and birdwatching: Keep an eye out for sandhill cranes and neotropical migratory songbirds, nonprofit conservation group River Partners notes.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
Participating communities agree to adopt and enforce floodplain management ordinances to reduce future flood damage.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Today, roughly 95 percent of structures in Rockaway Beach sit in what is known as the 100-year floodplain.
—Laura Thompson, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2024
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Mindy Lubber, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
The 1,600-acre former floodplain is great for hiking and birdwatching: Keep an eye out for sandhill cranes and neotropical migratory songbirds, nonprofit conservation group River Partners notes.
—Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 23 Dec. 2024
Participating communities agree to adopt and enforce floodplain management ordinances to reduce future flood damage.
—Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
Today, roughly 95 percent of structures in Rockaway Beach sit in what is known as the 100-year floodplain.
—Laura Thompson, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
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The leaders also highlighted ongoing concerns about drought in the Colorado River basin and housing.—
Nick Coltrain,
The Denver Post,
16 Jan. 2025
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Dominating the bottom left is the massive Caloris basin, spanning 1,500 km, surrounded by radiating troughs from its ancient impact.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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The area around it is a unique and delicate ecosystem that includes estuaries and coastal grasslands, mud flats and more, where falcons, hawks, ravens, gulls and songbirds live.—
Robert A. Kopack,
The Conversation,
17 Jan. 2025
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The species is widespread across Ethiopia and known to inhabit woodlands and grasslands.—
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Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Accustomed to flying in the gullies and canyons of Los Angeles County, the pilots understood what this meant.—
Thomas Fuller,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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But with gusts clocked at 59 mph, the fire quickly started pushing a shower of sparks across the canyon.—
Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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Shh—hear the mountains murmur? Peripatetic prairies slowly creep across the globe.—
Daniel Galef,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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Thousands of years ago, southern Wisconsin transitioned from a closed-canopy oak forest to an oak savanna—in an open prairie, oaks, instead of growing straight and tall, branch too early for canoe-making.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Dec. 2024
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Otherwise, what appeared to be a great opportunity and a perfect fit, could wind up being a career pothole in disguise. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.—
Edward Segal,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Scarce water reduces them to extracting moisture from potholes via syringes.—
Pat Tompkins,
AFAR Media,
13 Jan. 2025
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From this elevation west across the deep gulch that existed was one of the toughest pulls of the entire trail.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2025
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In the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premiere, did Wim’s dad seem to find him pretty quickly, considering that that gulch was a long speeder bike ride away from home?—
Charlie Mason,
TVLine,
6 Dec. 2024
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Around the turn of the century, Israel’s forestry department converted part of the Negev Desert into a savanna, planting trees in a mosaic of natural and altered patches to boost species diversity.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
30 Sep. 2024
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They are found in forests, savannas and wetlands of West Africa.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Jan. 2025
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California’s largest fire in 2024 started when a man pushed a burning car into a ravine near Chico.—
Virginia Iglesias,
The Conversation,
13 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Hirschfield raped Gonsalves and dumped both of the teenagers’ bodies in a ravine about 30 miles east of Davis in Sacramento County, where they were found by police three days later.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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