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Recent Examples of Synonyms for embank
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Media conglomerates Disney and Paramount have also made strategic financial decisions to win more favorable treatment from Trump and his administration.—
Allan Smith,
NBC news,
14 Aug. 2025 -
The vision of the commission is clear in a diagram for the War Department that sought to streamline the bureaucracy, conglomerating the existing 18 divisions into eight.—
Laura Ellyn Smith,
The Conversation,
9 May 2025
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At a higher level, the data accumulated by eBird has been used by researchers to better understand bird distribution, gain deeper understanding of migration patterns, model population trends and predict bird populations over time.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Through eight games, he's accumulated 1,795 passing yards, 15 passing touchdowns and six interceptions, along with 199 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Oct. 2025
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The raw material for the inflation report - the price checks on hundreds of goods and services around the country - was collected in September.—
NPR,
NPR,
25 Oct. 2025
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The farmer, his son and grandson were still collecting mink, with more than a dozen live traps deployed and checked routinely, Hobbs said.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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The coach will be grouped with one contributor and three seniors candidates.—
Staff,
Mercury News,
22 Oct. 2025
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For the annual Mansion in May show house, design firm Toledo Geller divided a long garden-level room with a pair of back-to-back sofas, grouping small card tables for tournaments on one side and a single pedestal table for cozier game nights on the other.—
Catherine Hong,
Better Homes & Gardens,
19 Oct. 2025
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Ninety-eight of those flights have been devoted to building out the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the largest satellite network ever assembled.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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All the parts were there, just waiting to be assembled.—
Ryan Ballogg,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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The pillows are also resistant to shifting and lumping, so the filling will remain evenly balanced, providing a reliably cozy place to rest your head every night.—
Melody Kazel,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Together all three flavors are lumped into a broad category called active galactic nuclei, or AGN for short.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
16 Oct. 2025
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One of them said that the freshmen class should gather at the YMCA building at midnight to practice yells before the game against Texas on the following day.—
Jordy Fee-Platt,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Accompanying the film screenings around the world, cinema foyers carried installations and themed message walls, and also offered dancefloors and gathering spaces for BTS fans to come together.—
Sara Merican,
Deadline,
24 Oct. 2025
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Tennessee has amassed more than $2 billion in a rainy day fund, designed to be used to accommodate unexpected shortfalls in state revenues, and amid emergencies such as natural disasters and recessions.—
Vivian Jones,
Nashville Tennessean,
23 Oct. 2025
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Naroditsky, an American chess grandmaster who amassed a large online following through streaming and teaching, died unexpectedly at the age of 29, according to a statement released by his family via the Charlotte Chess Center on Monday.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Embank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/embank. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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