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soil made chiefly of loose sedimentary material that is carried by flowing water and that sinks to the bottom of a river, pond, etc.
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Recent Examples of silt
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Riverside towns along the French Broad, like Marshall and Hot Springs, were severely affected, with thick mud and silt plastering the buildings.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
Throws that made octo-contact were also more likely to be accomplished with a specific set of arms, and the projectile was more likely to be silt.
—Emma Marris, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2022
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Noun
Would the car get stuck in glacial silt, which sometimes acts like quicksand?
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Riverside towns along the French Broad, like Marshall and Hot Springs, were severely affected, with thick mud and silt plastering the buildings.
—Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2024
Verb
Cathedral-like sandstone canyons were resurrected, and sunlight reached the silt-clogged floors for the first time in generations.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
Throws that made octo-contact were also more likely to be accomplished with a specific set of arms, and the projectile was more likely to be silt.
—Emma Marris, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silt
Noun
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The fishing will improve when the water warms and the sediment makes the water cloudy.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
11 Jan. 2025
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Over the years, the construction of upstream dams has drastically reduced the amount of sediment reaching the delta, a vital component for land building.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Purple blossoms furred the redbuds along his driveway; here and there beneath them were sprays of yellow forsythia.—
Jamie Quatro,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Aug. 2024
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The foils can also retract, meaning that the boats aren't at risk of marine growth, which could otherwise fur them up.—
Julia Buckley,
CNN,
28 July 2022
Noun
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At some point, alluvium buried the entire tusk, possibly from major storm flooding.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
14 Aug. 2024
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The tusk was covered with alluvium, possibly during a major flooding event, MDEQ said.—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
13 Aug. 2024
Verb
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The point, as is true in all politics, is to flood the zone with damaging stories about your opponents.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
The New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2025
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Aid would flood Gaza as residents returned to what is left of their homes, and the Israeli military pulls back from the major population centers, according to the mediators.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
Noun
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When blown by the wind, these sediments are referred to as loess.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
2 Sep. 2021
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Soils here are particularly complex, featuring chalk, sand, gravel, clay, loess, quartzite and slate.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2021
Verb
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Angling for position, the taxis engage in a series of polite reversals and turns that quickly gives way to gridlock.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2024
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Their effort has been criticized as a road to gridlock while, in the aftermath instead, a summer of litigation and investigation of actions has played out.—
Alan Wooten | The Center Square,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
13 Aug. 2024
Verb
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Her father was fortunately not home when the swollen Nolichucky swamped his house and destroyed everything in it.—
Suzanne Gamboa,
NBC News,
27 Dec. 2024
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Nevertheless, reflecting the market's weakness in December, new 52-week lows continue to swamp new highs on both markets, by 145 to 18 on the NYSE and 250 to 62 on Nasdaq.—
Brian Evans,Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
19 Dec. 2024
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This immersive documentary is a bracingly intimate and hallucinatory portrait of 67-year-old Lloyd, a man with schizophrenia surviving amidst urban detritus and decay.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024
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Shards of glass crack underfoot and rubble falls from above as people sweep away the damage from their flats, lobbing detritus off balconies.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN,
30 Nov. 2024
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“Silt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silt. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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