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creek

[kreek, krik] / krik, krɪk /


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The community offered access to a lake and creek, along with equestrian facilities and a shared lodge.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I started on my grandpa’s back, just floating down the creek with a life jacket on,” he told me during a recent phone interview from the Red Rock prison.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Ever since, lawyers for industrial interests and environmental groups have debated exactly how watery some swamp or creek must be to qualify for protection.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

While recording in a park one evening, Jack picks up the sound of a car tire exploding before he sees the vehicle careen off the road and into a creek.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

This time, they steered the correct course and, after several hours, spotted their destination—the mouth of a creek on the Virginia side of the Potomac.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The sizable farm was previously described as being home to an abundance of wildlife—and multiple trails and two year-round creeks run through the land.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Dixon said she and others who worked in the town’s contaminated creeks developed symptoms like dizziness and rashes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Also known as grabblers or hand-fishermen, noodlers use their own bare limbs as bait to catch enormous flathead catfish lurking in Southern and Midwestern rivers, creeks, and lakes.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Highway 33, at a modest 3.5% grade, meanders over and along creeks that are invisible from the road but marked by riparian vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

It was an alien geography that thrust outreaching along the water’s edge; a land of a thousand creeks, brown and turgid, but rich in the smell of the sea.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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