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aqua

[ak-wuh, ah-kwuh] / ˈæk wə, ˈɑ kwə /




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“That fish meal or aqua feed, as a whole, represents the majority cost for a lot of aquaculture farmers,” Gephart said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

But that was before the Miami Grand Prix moved in—before the artificial marina, the aqua chicane or the race weekends that packed in 275,000 fans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

First Anthony began to layer vanilla scents on to his preferred smoky, aqua, woody fragrances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025

He said aqua parks needed to be more tightly governed, adding he and Ms Parker wanted to protect other parents from the "torment" of losing a child.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2025

She spots them—Grandpa Ed in his palm tree trunks and Dawn Celeste in an aqua one-piece, their fingers linked, their tubes bumping as they glide along the water.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Ac, however, does not at all correspond to the well-known corruptions of aquae still found in the names of places in France where the Romans constructed baths.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

The artificer keeps in hand two aquae, one of which is stronger than the other; the stronger is used at first, then the less strong, then at the last again the stronger.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola

I do not speak of vigour and sprightliness; 'tis not reason they should follow me beyond their limits: "Non hoc amplius est liminis, aut aquae Coelestis, patiens latus."

From The Essays of Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Who can trace the filum aquae of the most erratic and arrogant river in all the world?

From The Law of the Land by Emerson Hough

The Spanish army encamped, says Guicciardini, "in a place called by Livy, from its vicinity to Sessa, aquae Sinuessanae, being perhaps the marshes in which Marius hid himself."

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3 by William Hickling Prescott

Merchants paused selling piñatas, street food and aquas frescas to take photos of the runners and cheer them on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2025

Rioux is a fabulous artist with a highly distinctive style: Here cat-eyed humans live in a world of aquas and rusts, golds and shadows.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2022

If you like a calming effect, choose soothing aquas, limes and mints.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2016

The bright aquas and greens are also gender-neutral for friends and cousins of both boys and girls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2015

The principal verb is tenebat, the subject ille, and the object aquas; so translate:— He used to stay the running waters by his song.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce


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