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Recent Examples of arroyo
Shortly after some removals, arroyo chub, another native fish, started moving upstream, Jacobson said.
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Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
Lummis built his house, El Alisal, with rocks dragged out of the arroyo, and opened it for business, the business of entertaining L.A.’s visiting luminaries.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
The bodies of 11 women aged between 15 and 32 were found in an arroyo outside Albuquerque in 2009, after a local walking her dog found a human bone and alerted authorities.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 July 2024
Hikers can see California buckwheat, arroyo willow, black sage, big berry manzanita and hairy ceanothus.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
Lummis built his house, El Alisal, with rocks dragged out of the arroyo, and opened it for business, the business of entertaining L.A.’s visiting luminaries.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
The bodies of 11 women aged between 15 and 32 were found in an arroyo outside Albuquerque in 2009, after a local walking her dog found a human bone and alerted authorities.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 July 2024
Hikers can see California buckwheat, arroyo willow, black sage, big berry manzanita and hairy ceanothus.
—Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arroyo
Noun
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Both Bazzano and Wells, however, hit the jackpot that afternoon, fishing a variety of water from the big lake to a small brook.—
Robeson Bailey,
Outdoor Life,
11 June 2025
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The vast and varied network of the Camino de Santiago has been compared to a river system where small brooks join together to make streams, and those streams come together to make rivers that ‘flow’ to the cathedral.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Noun
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When intense rains began: Urban runoff intensified due to paved surfaces in cities like Austin and Killeen, contributing to street and highway flooding.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations, especially those that saw flooding on Sunday and Monday from the remnants of Chantal.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
9 July 2025
Noun
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While traversing steep mountain trails and navigating undulating bent grass greens at Cliffhangers, golfers will drive carts through cascading waterfalls, cross swift flowing creeks, and wind through a cave system.—
Erik Matuszewski,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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It is situated along a creek just off California State Route 2 in Angeles National Forest.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
5 June 2025
Noun
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Tart and fresh, with a splash of red-berry fruits—not market basket fresh, but more like freshly picked off the bush—and a little bramble.—
Lana Bortolot,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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In the meantime, keep those feeders sparkling clean and the nectar fresh.—
Joan Morris,
Mercury News,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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Then there was a rare (now-deleted) Instagram carousel posted almost one year ago with a photo of Lorde leaning over a balcony in a black dress with a rivulet of white spit coming out of her mouth.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.—
Chris Hedges,
Harpers Magazine,
15 June 2024
Noun
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His verses evoke sacred rivers, fertile grounds and gardens bright with sinuous rills—a lyrical world beyond the inauspicious reality of its start-point.—
Natalie Hoberman,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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“Arroyo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arroyo. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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