basin
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Each of the riders covers upward of 30 miles a day to treat every catch basin in the city’s urban and suburban areas, about 75,000 total, over the course of a month.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Some producers are looking for ways to use more of their gas in basin rather than risk having to pay buyers to take it away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Officials have forecast a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season this year, which runs from June 1 to November 30, because of the return of El Nino conditions that suppress hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
"The 2,000-foot-long basin was drained" and "a tinted polyurea liner" was installed in the pool to "waterproof and protect the concrete pool surface", the NPS outlined in its statement.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
When he was fed, Brother Luke, who had talked quietly the while, fetched water in a basin, washed him, and in other ways made him comfortable.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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The absence of sediment across that roughly 2,000-year period indicates that water no longer covered parts of the lake basins.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
While it is a big transition for workers used to navigating the depths of coal basins, instructor Michal Rak says the miners have valuable advantages.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Communities in the western Hill Country region should prepare for the possibility of flash floods with catastrophic river flooding possible in the Nueces, Frio and Medina river basins, the weather service said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Marine cloud brightening has often been proposed for the eastern sides of ocean basins because of its strong cooling potential.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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