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Recent Examples of pothole
Since then, maintenance has been cut back, and small or moderate-size potholes in Avonwood Drive have expanded to wide and sometimes deep craters.
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Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
In the video, a school bus gets stuck in a pothole and JJ and his friends transform into superheroes after eating some delicious fruity muffins.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 8 Aug. 2025
And it’s projected to increase further — before a single pothole is filled or police officer is hired.
—John J Roach Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
This combination of strength and energy generation could be used in several types of wearables and Internet of Things applications, including infrastructure systems to reinforce bridges and highways that sense when a crack, pothole, or other damage appears, Yu says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
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Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2025
In the video, a school bus gets stuck in a pothole and JJ and his friends transform into superheroes after eating some delicious fruity muffins.
—Annabelle Canela, Parents, 8 Aug. 2025
And it’s projected to increase further — before a single pothole is filled or police officer is hired.
—John J Roach Iii, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025
This combination of strength and energy generation could be used in several types of wearables and Internet of Things applications, including infrastructure systems to reinforce bridges and highways that sense when a crack, pothole, or other damage appears, Yu says.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothole
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So far, Casalinuovo’s banjo catfish have been found at four sites in the Bermejo River basin of northwestern Argentina, near the borders with Bolivia and Chile.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, there were no tropical storms or hurricanes in the Atlantic basin on that date this year, AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva told Newsweek.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Today, no homes can be built in a floodplain per Benbrook city ordinance.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
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Camps must also have emergency rooftop ladders in every cabin in a 100-year floodplain.—
Rebekah Riess,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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The victim's truck was later found abandoned in a ravine.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
6 Sep. 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Sep. 2025
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Typical diurnal winds prevailed with westerly/up canyon, gusting near 20 MPH, observed in the afternoon.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The helicopter then lands inside the canyon, where participants start their epic journey on the river to the infamous Eyjafjallajökull volcano, past glaciers, waterfalls, and basalt columns.—
Mia Taylor,
Boston Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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The kettle, finally, was screaming.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
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Pour-over coffee maker Pour-over coffee makers, usually cones that sit atop cups or carafes à la Chemex, utilize a precise pouring technique (ideally from a gooseneck kettle) that blooms the grounds and extracts the best flavors as the coffee drips into the vessel below.—
Mark Marino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
29 Aug. 2025
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Kurt Russell is getting back in the saddle.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Sep. 2025
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Gopher snakes tend to be tan-colored with large square brown blotches or saddles along their backs and smaller gray spots on their sides.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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While the team tried to pull him up to safety, his belt broke, and Bell went back down into the crevasse.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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The remains of a British researcher who fell into a crevasse on an Antarctic glacier 66 years ago have been recovered, the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said.—
Haicen Yang,
CNN Money,
12 Aug. 2025
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There were more creeks, high hills, big parks, passes, and open mountainsides with broken, timbered canyons and gulches.—
Fred C. Mercer,
Outdoor Life,
14 Aug. 2025
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Mandatory evacuations were active along the Colorado 13 corridor from the White River near Meeker to south of Piceance Creek Road in Garfield County, parts of Rio Blanco County east of Willow Creek and south of Piceance Creek, and gulches west of Colorado 13.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Pothole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pothole. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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