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Recent Examples of billabong
Sonia Namarnyilk layered three stencils to print complex patterns of mermaid-like water spirits, their fluid, bright orange undulations interspersed with playful turtles and rippling billabong plants.
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Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
Fifteen million years ago, a river carved through the jungle, leaving an oxbow lake (known as a billabong in Australia) in its wake at McGraths Flat.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
As iron-rich runoff from nearby basalt mountains seeped into the billabong, the pool’s low pH caused the iron to precipitate and encase the organic material.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
The plants and creatures were fossilized when iron-rich groundwater drained into a billabong, or water hole.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
Recreation in the summer shrinks to barbecues, swimming in the billabong, and drinking stubbies, or bottles of beer, on Big Red under the stars.
—Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2016
Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
Fifteen million years ago, a river carved through the jungle, leaving an oxbow lake (known as a billabong in Australia) in its wake at McGraths Flat.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
As iron-rich runoff from nearby basalt mountains seeped into the billabong, the pool’s low pH caused the iron to precipitate and encase the organic material.
—New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
The plants and creatures were fossilized when iron-rich groundwater drained into a billabong, or water hole.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022
Recreation in the summer shrinks to barbecues, swimming in the billabong, and drinking stubbies, or bottles of beer, on Big Red under the stars.
—Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billabong
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But health insurers are typically doing the bidding of the employer who hires them or the government that pays them to administer a pool of money, which are premiums paid by consumers, taxpayers, workers or employers.Bruce Japsen, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
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Although facial recognition software has come a long way in the past two decades, Duffey said, the image is likely not clear enough to get a reasonably small pool of matches.Christina Coulter, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2024
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The point where the lights and the extension cord meet should be kept clear of puddles, snow, ice, and damp soil so that moisture does not cause the Christmas lights to short circuit.Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2024
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One of the most notable was May 20, 2023, in Foxborough, Massachusetts, when the singer pushed puddles of rain off her piano.Bryan West, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2024
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Miller stated Brown, who is married with four children, has shared her vision about improving the county's watershed and the water quality of the lake.Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 13 Dec. 2024
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Centralize Storage: Use data lakes or cloud platforms to consolidate structured and unstructured data.Abhishek Shivanna, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Billabong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billabong. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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