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Recent Examples of floodplain
The Lower Mississippi Valley is the nation's largest floodplain, covering more than 24 million acres across portions Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
Around 22 acres of floodplain on the old course’s westernmost edge will be set aside as green space.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
In 1999, the state launched a buyout program to remove at-risk hog farms from the area that has a 1% chance of flooding each year, also known as the 100-year floodplain.
—Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
That program removed 43 farms from the floodplain.
—Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2025
Around 22 acres of floodplain on the old course’s westernmost edge will be set aside as green space.
—Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Feb. 2025
In 1999, the state launched a buyout program to remove at-risk hog farms from the area that has a 1% chance of flooding each year, also known as the 100-year floodplain.
—Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
That program removed 43 farms from the floodplain.
—Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
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West Virginia sits atop the Marcellus Shale basin, which holds 141 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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After each round of full-body exfoliation, a giant basin of warm water was dumped over my body, like I was being baptized.—
Anna Haines,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
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Whereas mammoths preferred the cold, dry grasslands that spread as Ice Age glaciers expanded, Mammut preferred the warmer, wetter habitats of Pleistocene forests and thrived during the interglacial reprieves from the ice.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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The population of grassland birds in the U.S. has dropped by 43% since 1970, as row-crop production, drought and habitat loss take their toll, the report says.—
Sarah Metz,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2025
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As was common all over the Florida Gulf Coast, the road nearby was lined with a canyon of refrigerators and cabinets and other household items ruined by the flood waters and left out by the curb for the city to haul away.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2025
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In January, thousands of portraits still at Adelaide were breathtakingly close to the Palisades Fire, which burned nearly all the homes on the other side of the canyon.—
Michael Slenske,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Apr. 2025
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What do beef tallow, prairie dresses and the quiet luxury trend all have in common?—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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Sheba Abernathy, a resident of Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, serves as volunteer steward at Superior Street Prairie, a remnant prairie in Calumet City.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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Loren Taylor, a former Oakland City Council member, has gained traction with voters as a moderate candidate who has pledged to fix potholes, reduce crime and shorten 911 response times.—
Soumya Karlamangla,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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The underlying assumption is that planning can avoid deep potholes.—
Allen Best,
The Denver Post,
10 Mar. 2025
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Press releases from the attorneys general emphasize the gulch between the leaders, a microcosm of their significantly different approaches to running the agency.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
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From this elevation west across the deep gulch that existed was one of the toughest pulls of the entire trail.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2025
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Disney had people stationed across the savanna for Tucker’s protection.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 Apr. 2025
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More than 30 percent of the biomass in such savannas gets consumed by termites hollowing out trunks from within, according to research by Zanne, a co-author of an article on deadwood and the carbon cycle in the 2024 Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics.—
Katarina Zimmer,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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If reaching a safe shelter is not possible, either crouch down in your car and cover your head, or leave your vehicle and seek refuge in a low-lying area like a ditch or ravine.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2025
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Four people were killed and another was severely injured on Thursday when their cable car crashed into a ravine in Italy.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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