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Recent Examples of heat wave
As populations of this food source recovered from the marine heat wave, detections of blue whale singing soared.
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
The last 20 years have seen an increase in MHW (marine heat wave) frequency as well as MHW days per year and yearly cumulative intensity.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
But abalone have a slow reproductive rate, and their populations have been decimated due to overfishing, marine heat waves and other environmental stressors.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Phoenix nearly hit 100 degrees this week, and East Coast cities are also having intensifying spring heat waves.
—Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
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Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
The last 20 years have seen an increase in MHW (marine heat wave) frequency as well as MHW days per year and yearly cumulative intensity.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
But abalone have a slow reproductive rate, and their populations have been decimated due to overfishing, marine heat waves and other environmental stressors.
—Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
Phoenix nearly hit 100 degrees this week, and East Coast cities are also having intensifying spring heat waves.
—Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 27 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for heat wave
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“Heat wave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heat%20wave. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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