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shallow

[shal-oh] / ˈʃæl oʊ /




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Her observations complicated the existing picture because shallow buoyancy forces could explain much of the expected motion across the rift, but not the movement running along it.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

Located in shallow waters, the site is slated to start producing gas from next year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

In the seventh inning of the Dodgers’ 11-5 victory against the Rockies, Tucker seemed to camp right under a shallow fly.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Its growth in St Aubin's Bay, Jersey, is normally attributed to warm, shallow conditions, combined with run-off from fields and treated water.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

That meant that a lot of the lakes in the region were shallow enough to stand in.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

However, small growers often have shallower wells that are more vulnerable to going dry when water levels drop.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

"This suggests a fairly shallow eruption vent -- much shallower than what's implied by the existing bathymetry, which shows water depths of several hundred meters or more."

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

Young sharks tend to remain in the refuge of shallower areas near the shore where larger predators are less common.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

“The case is still there to cut rates, but the cycle will be shallower or postponed,” Larose says.

From Barron's Apr. 20, 2026

She said, “Yeah. You know, I think death is shallower now. It used to be a hole you fell into and kept falling. Now it’s just a blank.”

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

Currently, surveys are limited to very restricted spots, but with the help of these advanced underwater drones, scientists can extend their research from the shallowest regions to depths of 60 meters and beyond.

From Science Daily Feb. 15, 2024

Though residential investment, which includes homebuilding, likely contracted for the ninth straight quarter, the decline was probably the shallowest in 1-1/2 years.

From Reuters Jul. 27, 2023

And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.

From New York Times May 28, 2023

They are faux bullies with no heart, only a head for the fight and no care for anything but the shallowest of victories.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2022

The moon was hidden somewhere behind the blinding glare, and it felt like the city itself was collapsing, pressing in, taking only the shallowest of breaths in the squeeze of lost space.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

A few children splashed in the shallows as the surfers paddled out to sea, fighting the crashing waves.

From Barron's Jun. 22, 2026

This is the kind of art that would find a suitable home in a crypto king’s Miami mansion, and whose pretense of depth can’t conceal its wallowing in the shallows.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 20, 2026

But now scientists on the first expedition beyond the islands' shallows have discovered an underwater mountain range, a massive "blue hole", coral reefs apparently untouched by climate change and never-before-seen sea creatures.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2026

They frequent the shallows surrounding Friday Harbor Labs, the UW research facility located on San Juan Island.

From Science Daily Oct. 16, 2025

“Tristan, then. We made the shallows, but the water’s still too deep for some of the Midfolk.”

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

Once again, the sea shallowed, and fish shimmied between crags, sea urchins perched on ridges and starfish danced on the side of the island.

From The Guardian Jan. 6, 2017

Instead of descending directly into the mantle, the subducting plate shallowed out and moved eastward beneath the continental plate affecting the overlying continent hundreds of miles east of the continental margin and building high mountains.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2017

That shows I've shallowed the path of my driver from the top to impact.

From Golf Digest Aug. 7, 2016

“Be a good boy,” my mother said with a shallowed voice before closing the door behind her, leaving us alone.

From Salon Mar. 5, 2013

Then it was eight, then seven, and as they glided out of the turmoil into perfectly smooth water the depth shallowed to six fathoms, and kept at that, no less, wherever they rowed.

From Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy by William Heysham Overend

The researchers cite as one example the Bangkok basin in Thailand, where groundwater levels fell in the late-twentieth century before shallowing out in the early 21at Century.

From Salon Jan. 24, 2024

Instead, the fish have been forced to lay their eggs at the base of Shasta Lake in the shallowing Sacramento River.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2022

His short-iron stats are trailing, but that's a result of how well he's shallowing the club into impact.

From Golf Digest May 29, 2019

But the shallowing seawater in the Baltic Sea is not the only thing worrying people in the area, says Knutsson.

From Slate Aug. 7, 2017

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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