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[depth] / dɛpθ /




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The Lakers have wing depth, but could bolster their center options beyond Kessler and backup Kevon Looney, and are unsettled at power forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The boy's body was found five metres from the edge of the pond within submerged tree roots at a depth of 1.8 metres.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

A decline in depth of Gatún Lake—the main reservoir for the canal and the artificial lake that carries ships for about 20 miles of their transit across—means ships can’t go through fully loaded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Room Rater built an audience scoring Zoom backgrounds for lighting, depth, art and visible cords; books themselves became set dressing.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

If Brunelleschi wanted to experiment with depth of field, why not use a vanishing-point perspective, which would have been straightforward, and indeed familiar to him?

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Not many recall his reported invocation of another work of Sanskrit poetry that reads, “In sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame/The good deeds a man has done before defend him.”

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

In the depths of Arctic winter, newly opened gaps in the ice would ordinarily freeze over again within several days.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Even then there is a high chance the fire will reappear, like a smoking revenant, fed by hidden fuel buried in the invisible depths of the peat swamp.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

“This connects you back down to the depths, to what’s true.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

However, scattered throughout the dark depths were shallow areas: sandbars, reefs, islands just under the waves.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown




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