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And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021.
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Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
Now a little rill of wavelets across the surface of the flood was the only thing that marked the river’s usual borders.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
The word has a natural lilt, a melody that builds to a pitch and gently subsides like a wavelet breaking on a Mediterranean shore.
—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
The wave turned out to be more of a wavelet, with a Senate still so evenly split that control may not be decided until a Dec. 6 run-off in Georgia between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
Alabama’s current wavelet has been going on for about a month.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 4 June 2022
All of that has boosted Democratic hopes that November will bring something more akin to a red wavelet than a tsunami.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
Cases climbed here for the seventh consecutive week, and the state saw the first major jump in hospitalizations since the start of the current wavelet.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 4 June 2022
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Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
Now a little rill of wavelets across the surface of the flood was the only thing that marked the river’s usual borders.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
The word has a natural lilt, a melody that builds to a pitch and gently subsides like a wavelet breaking on a Mediterranean shore.
—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
The wave turned out to be more of a wavelet, with a Senate still so evenly split that control may not be decided until a Dec. 6 run-off in Georgia between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2022
Alabama’s current wavelet has been going on for about a month.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 4 June 2022
All of that has boosted Democratic hopes that November will bring something more akin to a red wavelet than a tsunami.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2022
Cases climbed here for the seventh consecutive week, and the state saw the first major jump in hospitalizations since the start of the current wavelet.
—Ramsey Archibald | Rarchibald@al.com, al, 4 June 2022
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“Wavelet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wavelet. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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