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Recent Examples of arroyo
Hikers can see California buckwheat, arroyo willow, black sage, big berry manzanita and hairy ceanothus.
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Cathy McGrath is among the closest neighbors to the project, with a home backing onto the mountains and just across an arroyo from where the company intends to move mine tailings.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
The hole is tricky because getting to the green requires hitting over an arroyo, a drainage channel, that has been densely lined with concertina wire.
—J. David Goodman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
For this Sedona house, the intent was to retain water on the property and not overwhelm the arroyo behind it.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Cathy McGrath is among the closest neighbors to the project, with a home backing onto the mountains and just across an arroyo from where the company intends to move mine tailings.
—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
The hole is tricky because getting to the green requires hitting over an arroyo, a drainage channel, that has been densely lined with concertina wire.
—J. David Goodman, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
For this Sedona house, the intent was to retain water on the property and not overwhelm the arroyo behind it.
—Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arroyo
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The property is nestled between a brook and a horse pasture.Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 9 Mar. 2024
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Or might the brook be angry, like a poltergeist deranged by degradation, indignity, and concealment?Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 30 Oct. 2024
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Should none of the candidates receive 50% of the vote in the primary, the city would need to hold a runoff election.Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
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If no one does, the top two candidates head to a runoff election in December.Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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The nurses also provided some basic medical education, making sure that everyone in the area, long accustomed to being able to drink from their local creek, knew that the water was now contaminated because of the flooding.Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
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Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
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Maintenance can also be time- and budget-intensive to keep the foxy-red color fresh.Nicola Dall'Asen, Allure, 28 Sep. 2024
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Paper towels are the secret weapon to keeping produce fresh So don’t be ashamed of paper towel use.Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Vox, 4 Sep. 2024
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Two and a half feet of rain beat down upon the face of the San Gabriels, wiping out the rustic resorts wedged into the canyons, and chuting runoff waters down onto the plain along ancient dry rivulets and freshets and canyons that Angelenos had forgotten or never known about.Patt MorrisonColumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
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The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks.Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
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Steaming rivulets of milky turquoise water flowed in channels beside the roadway.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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In some places, the rivulets had merged to form streams that had to be jumped across.Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Earthbound telescopes saw rills or gullies that later proved to be collapsed lava tubes.David Szondy, New Atlas, 16 July 2024
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These rills form as the desiccating winds of the Sahara blow tiny bits of sand across the rock.Bethany Brookshire, Scientific American, 27 June 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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Another Chilean volcano with impressive coulees is Aucanquilcha (see above), near the Chilean-Bolivian border.Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2010
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“Arroyo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arroyo. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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