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Recent Examples of floodplain
Communities of the Barotse derive diverse livelihoods from the floodplain, including livestock rearing, crop production, and fishing.
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Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
This has partly been attributed to rapid urban development, which has created sprawl that encases floodplains in impermeable concrete.
—Christy Choi, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
Another official said the standard will increase the number of feet structures can be elevated and broaden floodplains.
—Zack Budryk, The Hill, 10 July 2024
The river's floodplain forests are also struggling.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
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Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
This has partly been attributed to rapid urban development, which has created sprawl that encases floodplains in impermeable concrete.
—Christy Choi, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
Another official said the standard will increase the number of feet structures can be elevated and broaden floodplains.
—Zack Budryk, The Hill, 10 July 2024
The river's floodplain forests are also struggling.
—Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
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Meanwhile, negotiations among the seven basin states will continue as the 2025 deadline for new water-sharing rules looms.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Advocates hope the findings from many listening sessions will encourage the bill's passage, and ultimately help guide future investments in the basin.Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 17 Dec. 2024
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During the dry season, the pans are flat, white, vast, and practically lunar, but when the rains start in November, the landscape shifts almost overnight, turning into a vibrant grassland.Nicholas DeRenzo, AFAR Media, 18 Dec. 2024
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By century’s end, up to 20% of all Earth’s land could experience abrupt ecosystem transformation, such as forests becoming grasslands, with attendant extinction and collapse of ecosystems.Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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Valles Marineris, located along Mars' equator, is the largest canyon in the Solar System.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Brave the canyon walls of Ribeira dos Caldeirões, rappelling through waterfalls into hidden pools, or skip through into the clear waters off Vila Franca do Campo, where whales and dolphins skim beside your boat.Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
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Dead Outlaw David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses’s musical unspools with the homey charm of broadcast heard on a fuzzy radio transmission on a winter night in the prairie.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
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The Northeast does not have the huge prairies conducive for wind farms or the easily accessible geothermal energy that exists in parts of the West Coast.Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2024
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The roads are full of litter and potholes, with raw sewage and piles of uncollected garbage posing a health risk.Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 1 Dec. 2024
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The cost of salting roads in the winter and fixing potholes is more expensive when there is inflation.Michael D. Belsky, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
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In the Star Wars: Skeleton Crew premiere, did Wim’s dad seem to find him pretty quickly, considering that that gulch was a long speeder bike ride away from home?Charlie Mason, TVLine, 6 Dec. 2024
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The skies are the star attraction at Clear Sky Resorts Bryce Canyon, a new property set in a quiet gulch just 16 miles southeast of Bryce Canyon National Park.Alison Osius, Outside Online, 1 Nov. 2024
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Home to more national parks than anywhere else in Queensland, the peninsula houses a variety of landscapes, from lush rainforests to tropical savannas and vibrant coral reefs.Roger Sands, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
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But the eastern shores of Lady Bird Lake also harbor small savanna ecosystems.Cross Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
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This week's episode, which aired on TV Wednesday and was available to Paramount+ subscribers Thursday morning, saw competitors cross an arctic lake in kayaks and hold their bodyweight to cross a ravine in a zipline-style challenge.Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
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From there, a bridge spans a short ravine into one of the lushest and most wooded portions of the trail.Daniel Bromfield, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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