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Recent Examples of floodgate
While Lily seems happy in her current relationship, Atlas, her childhood love, opens up a floodgate of memories from their youth.
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Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 8 Aug. 2024
The floodgates burst after a calamitous debate performance showed Biden halting and uneven on stage with Trump.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
Harris also raised a whopping $200 million in her first week as the presumptive Democratic nominee after opening a floodgate of campaign donations.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 July 2024
After a 1953 storm caused devastating floods in the Netherlands, the country launched the Delta Works project, which closed off vulnerable inlets with an array of dams, floodgates, locks and embankments.
—Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
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Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 8 Aug. 2024
The floodgates burst after a calamitous debate performance showed Biden halting and uneven on stage with Trump.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
Harris also raised a whopping $200 million in her first week as the presumptive Democratic nominee after opening a floodgate of campaign donations.
—Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 July 2024
After a 1953 storm caused devastating floods in the Netherlands, the country launched the Delta Works project, which closed off vulnerable inlets with an array of dams, floodgates, locks and embankments.
—Xander Peters, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodgate
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In 2014, Kyrgyz and Tajik conscripts exchanged fire over a strategic sluice in Ak-Sai.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2016
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At night Mulrooney put the floor sweepings through a sluice, gleaning an extra $100 or so in gold dust daily.Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Burgum, himself a billionaire, has also been a vocal critic of the policies of President Joe Biden to raise barriers around the extraction industry.Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 15 Nov. 2024
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Seven out of 10 respondents in the study reported barriers to full access to sports.Allison Torres Burtka, Parents, 5 Nov. 2024
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Tensions between Israel and Iran remain at a boiling point, more than a week after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes into Iranian territory, the latest in a chain of retaliatory attacks after Iran fired a barrage of around 200 missiles at Israel in early October.Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Since 2020, election workers have faced a constant barrage of threats, harassment, and stalking at such a level that the DOJ formed a special division just to investigate those types of threats.Tess Owen, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
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The two groups are massed on opposite sides of the steps to Low Library, divided by metal barricades and monitored by campus safety teams.NBC News, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
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Chalk graffiti on barricades surrounding a park near vice presidential nominee JD Vance's Alexandria home was painted over Tuesday.Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
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Many of the state’s wildlife officials got their start working on a weir.Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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The city controls several weirs where water is diverted.Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
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While nothing is guaranteed in sports, Mahomes throwing for a single yard on Monday Night Football is close to a lock.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Katie Hafner: In this way, tamoxifen acts like a key broken off in a lock.Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Floodgate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodgate. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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