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On the water, target current breaks, pools, and deep riffles where trout will wait and ambush their food.
Max Inchausti,
Field & Stream,
12 June 2024
Sandbars and rock bars and gravel bars could be broken down into a full taxonomy describing their size and shape and orientation: chains and traps, riffles and reefs.
Does the little surge of Trump dances across sports represent a wave, or at least a wavelet, of athletes declaring their allegiances for the President-elect?
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
24 Nov. 2024
And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021.
Then one day in 2019, her son Huxley disappeared from videos altogether, prompting a tidal wave of questions from fans and eventually sparking a scandal that ended her career online entirely.
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
Lions defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn cranked the blitz dial up to 10, engulfing Darnold in the pocket like a tidal wave.
Remember, buttermilk is already cultured and tangy, so a little age isn't a deal breaker.
Sheri Castle,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
Connor Hellebuyck is having another fantastic, Vezina Trophy-caliber season, Davis Payne’s power play is firing on all cylinders, and Winnipeg’s top skaters — Mark Scheifele, Josh Morrissey, Kyle Connor, Nikolaj Ehlers and Gabriel Vilardi — are all playing like game breakers.
Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on December 26 to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history.
Alan Taylor,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2025
Every new wave of technology builds on the last — but 2025 feels more like a tsunami than a ripple.
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