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Recent Examples of wadi
New geophysical surveys and coring of the wadi would shed more light on the hydrological aspects of the area, while other surveys might reveal where the eastward tunnels of the pyramid lead.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
The building was built in a wadi.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
The wadi stretched outside the window.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that.
—Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
—Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi.
—Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
But in the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began a new settlement at Jerash, mostly on the eastern bank of the wadi, on top of the ancient remains of that half of the city.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
The spring that filled the Birketein reservoir, where modern residents swim, would have supplied about a quarter of the ancient city, along with water from upstream in the wadi.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
The building was built in a wadi.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
The wadi stretched outside the window.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that.
—Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
—Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi.
—Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
But in the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began a new settlement at Jerash, mostly on the eastern bank of the wadi, on top of the ancient remains of that half of the city.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
The spring that filled the Birketein reservoir, where modern residents swim, would have supplied about a quarter of the ancient city, along with water from upstream in the wadi.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wadi
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Officials added that a piece of smoldering material may have been blown into an adjacent, dry gully and caused the rekindling.Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2024
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Water surged over a gully running through the Valencian town, ripping apart roads and tearing down walls of homes.Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Flowers included arroyo lupine and California poppies.Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
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Shortly after some removals, arroyo chub, another native fish, started moving upstream, Jacobson said.Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
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Look for blazer-like details like the ones in Aritzia’s The Constant coat, or the sharp lines punctuating Another Tomorrow’s double-faced trench.Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2024
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Now, after Musk confirmed a bitcoin and crypto price game-changer, traders and analysts are speculating whether Musk wading back into the bitcoin trenches of X increases the chances of a U.S. bitcoin strategic reserve.Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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One of the coolest hikes within the park is Mosaic Canyon, which leads hikers into a narrow canyon with smooth, steep walls.Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Dec. 2024
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To dig deeper into the park, consider trekking through The Narrows, a slot canyon where the walls of Zion Canyon rise 1,000 feet up while pinching to 30 feet wide at certain points.Graham Averill, Outside Online, 24 Nov. 2024
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Guiding me into the highlands for red deer, a 300-pound ungulate that lives above timberline amid the picturesque heather, is John Caithness, an affable fifty-something veteran stalker who knows the many hidden coulees and pastures of the estate where stags tend to frequent.Chris Dorsey, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
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It's described by the forest service as encompassing forested slopes, sandstone cliffs and narrow ravines.Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2024
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The Park Fire began July 24 at a park in Chico when a man pushed a burning car down a grassy ravine in 100-degree temperatures.Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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There’s no official trail through the narrow gorge, which can be found 12.7 miles south of Highway 24 on the paved Notom-Bullfrog Road, but the occasional cairn and obvious route through narrow, sandstone walls make this journey relatively straightforward to navigate.Graham Averill, Outside Online, 20 Nov. 2024
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Montero says, while taking a breather from cleaning near a gorge that was filled with a crushing wall of water just days earlier.Teresa Medrano, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
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Until a few years ago, much of the city’s sewage was released untreated into the Ganges via public drains, or nullahs, which discharged along the same bank as the ghats, where people habitually bathe.Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
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The project involves the diversion of a nullah which is a lifeline for the area.Manish Chandra Mishra, Quartz, 10 June 2021
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“Wadi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wadi. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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