gley

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Noun
  • When polio workers came door-to-door in late April last year in his village of simple mud and brick houses, the child had a fever.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The hotel’s lobby bar and connected lounge spaces are filled with an impressive collection of African art, from masks to textiles like mud cloth sourced from Benin, the Congo, Ethiopia, and the Tuareg people.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Phosphorus is notoriously slow to dissolve, and because of their microscopic particle sizes, clays tend to hold the phosphorus tightly.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The storm had loosened the piece of clay from a nearby cliff face.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Teams will eventually undertake soil studies and drone-based, multispectral ground sensing to measure potential improvements to soil quality and carbon capture capacity on farmland that uses these techniques.
    Robin Roenker, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025
  • To minimize outdoor pollution during poor air quality, officials urged people to carpool; telecommute; reduce trips or take public transportation; slow down when driving on dirt roads; and stabilize loose soils.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The war settled into a brutal battle of attrition with limited movement along a frontline stretching for 600 miles through muck of eastern Ukraine.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The Clippers’ success lately isn’t just stemming from them making games ugly with their defense and slogging through the muck.
    Zach Harper, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The white sand Beach is also a hot spot for surfers and a popular spot for those driving the Road to Hana that’s located at mile 9.
    Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • There also are fat bikes designed for sand and snow.
    BestReviews, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In the earlier days of the public A.I. race, OpenAI seemed to be to A.I. what Facebook was to social networking: a single American product for everyone on earth.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But officials in this second Trump administration, including the President himself, see it as a waste of an enormously valuable resource given that U.S. coal reserves far exceed those of any other nation on earth.
    David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Key Ingredients: Jojoba seed oil, raspberry leaf extract, kaolin clay, vitamin C, vitamin E Finish: Natural Finish Shades: 9 How to apply: Swipe onto cheeks and lips, then blend in.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Thanks to jojoba oil and a blend of fruit extracts, the formulation is nourishing, effortlessly blendable, and streak-resistant; kaolin clay is a natural absorbent for excess oil, ensuring your product stays put.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Those interactions spring from the rich loam of history and lore that gives the sport its halcyon glow, and from which even a humble amateur game absorbs vicarious grandeur.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Emerging research suggests that there can be restorative effects to—for example—hearing birdsong, seeing trees, or smelling pleasant natural scents, such as loam or leaves.
    Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
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“Gley.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gley. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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