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Recent Examples of white water
What started as a distant rumble grew into an earthquake-like tremor—a freight train of white water barreling toward them.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
The river — a popular spot for white water rafting around this time of the year — is fast-moving and dangerous.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Haas customized a tour for this group, combining opportunities to meet with Afro-Costa Ricans featured in the series, including writer Quince Duncan and cacao farmer Daniel South, and to participate in activities like cooking classes, ziplining, and white water rafting.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2025
But there’s plenty to do on-property as well, with opportunities to ride horses, white water raft, and fly fish in the South Fork of the Madison River.
—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025
The river — a popular spot for white water rafting around this time of the year — is fast-moving and dangerous.
—Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2025
Haas customized a tour for this group, combining opportunities to meet with Afro-Costa Ricans featured in the series, including writer Quince Duncan and cacao farmer Daniel South, and to participate in activities like cooking classes, ziplining, and white water rafting.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2025
But there’s plenty to do on-property as well, with opportunities to ride horses, white water raft, and fly fish in the South Fork of the Madison River.
—Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for white water
Noun
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Get a pulse from locals on swell conditions at Roca Bruja, where right- and left-hand waves, and the chance to ride a chute, are the draw.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
8 July 2025
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The chicks are tossed into trash cans to be gassed or electrocuted, or in chutes like this to be ground alive, because males have no value for the egg industry.—
Will Potter
July 7,
Literary Hub,
7 July 2025
Noun
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Look for flower spikes that are beginning to decline, and cut the stem just above a set of leaves or side shoots.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
11 July 2025
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Too much nitrogen fosters loads of vegetative (leaf and shoot) growth and little reproductive (flower and fruit) growth.—
Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
11 July 2025
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“White water.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/white%20water. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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