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Recent Examples of wavelet
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wavelet
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On the water, target current breaks, pools, and deep riffles where trout will wait and ambush their food.Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 12 June 2024
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Sandbars and rock bars and gravel bars could be broken down into a full taxonomy describing their size and shape and orientation: chains and traps, riffles and reefs.Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
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This beloved, Best of Beauty-winning hair tool does it all: curls, dries, waves, and smoothes, all with minimal heat damage.Annie Blackman, Allure, 5 Nov. 2024
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The images of Mary Pickford's long curls and her beautiful gowns had captured Arlene's imagination.EW.com, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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The town was a manufacturing hub in the 1960s for the hair roller maker Carmen Curlere before it was sold to U.S. firm Clairol, eventually leading to thousands of job losses and the plant’s closure in 1990.Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 4 Nov. 2024
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The image architect, 46, who is known for his work with icons like Zendaya and Céline Dion, partnered with Pepsi Wild Cherry for a new capsule collection that's all about roller skating culture from a day gone by.Hedy Phillips, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
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The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
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The collapse of Genesis, Celsius, and BlockFi in 2022 sent painful ripples across the crypto industry.Alexander S. Blume, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Occasionally, one of the gravitons in these ripples would strike an atom in a detector and kick an electron into a higher energy level.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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“Wavelet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wavelet. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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