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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
Noun
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But Kelly had fallen into a gully, obscuring the line of sight of rescuers on the ground.—
Tristan Kennedy,
WIRED,
7 Oct. 2024
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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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Following last year’s Bridge fire, which scorched habitat in the East Fork of the San Gabriel River, 503 rainbows — in addition to Santa Ana speckled dace, Santa Ana sucker and arroyo chub — were relocated to nearby streams, Evans said.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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Flowers included arroyo lupine and California poppies.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Oct. 2024
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Re-signing Austin Corbett and Cade Mays to compete at center is a logical, cost-effective strategy that seems to align with the way the Panthers will approach their already expensive trench group.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Jan. 2025
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Ukrainian drones observed some Russians advancing as far as a key trench anchoring Ukrainian positions just east of Leonidovo in the no-man’s-land along the 250-square-mile salient Ukrainian troops occupy in Kursk.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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Accustomed to flying in the gullies and canyons of Los Angeles County, the pilots understood what this meant.—
Thomas Fuller,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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But with gusts clocked at 59 mph, the fire quickly started pushing a shower of sparks across the canyon.—
Terry Castleman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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California’s largest fire in 2024 started when a man pushed a burning car into a ravine near Chico.—
Virginia Iglesias,
The Conversation,
13 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Hirschfield raped Gonsalves and dumped both of the teenagers’ bodies in a ravine about 30 miles east of Davis in Sacramento County, where they were found by police three days later.—
Clara Harter,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Sheltered between the 4-meter high, 2.5-meter wide walls and the 60-meter-deep gorges, people built dugout houses, then later aboveground stone ones, along with stone animal pens and other buildings.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
9 Jan. 2025
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At least 13 people were killed and 28 injured after a bus filled with tourists plummeted down a 160-foot gorge in Colombia.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
4 Jan. 2025
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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 22 Jan. 2025.
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