basin
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Polo was also one of three hurricanes churning away in the same basin at the same time, along with Odalys and Nolo.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
“As people like to say in the basin, lawsuits aren’t going to generate any water,” Mr. Udall says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
This differs from the Arctic, where an ocean basin is enclosed by surrounding land.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Across the Atlantic in Africa, the situation deteriorated in the Congo basin, where rainforest loss reached 2.4 million hectares -- near the same level of deforestation as the Amazon for the first time.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Lou Ann is in the living room, soaking her feet in a blue plastic basin.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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Many hospital emergency departments, meanwhile, have become catch basins for people with unmet mental-health challenges in full-blown crises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Because the Pacific is so vast, changes in its mass can outweigh gains or losses in other ocean basins.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Gulf Coast refineries benefit from lower-cost crude coming from Texas oil basins such as the Permian and Eagle Ford.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
New dams and debris basins turned the vast natural waterways and springs and creeks of old L.A. into a chutes-and-ladders system to divert and hold back water and mud, before the next time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Ethan is not in the courtyard as promised, but after several misdirected attempts, I eventually find him at the lavanderia, the ancient washing basins next to the gardens.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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