basin
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Temperatures will be in the 80s and 90s in the basin and could top 100 in inland valleys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 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
BlueNord has interests in asset production across the Danish Continental Shelf—an offshore basin with geological and operational similarities to the Norwegian Continental Shelf and Var Energi’s existing North Sea assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
“Hold the candle,” said Mr. Rochester, and I took it: he fetched a basin of water from the washstand: “Hold that,” said he.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
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
"The crystallisation basins are covered by grass and sheath and so on. This is not the landscape that usually salinas are," she said, explaining the changes to the area that saltwork pumping created.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Infrastructure in the highly populated basins of major European rivers such as the Danube, the Rhine and the Volga is projected to be exposed to significant flooding, said UNECE.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The argument between Mr. and Mrs. Dalai was still more or less in effect early the next morning, when a barefoot team of workmen came to install the basins.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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