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Such value as the dike bonds retain is the one assigned by the buyers of financial curios—Yale University paid more than $27,000 at auction in 2003.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

They propose that magma from a thermal-chemical plume rose through the plate, created the dike swarms, and then reacted with the surrounding mantle rock.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

“And when you were up on the rock, then every crystal, crack, and ripple was endowed with indissoluble, life-saving importance, each dike and chickenhead inalienably itself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026

The organization will run out of money for dike maintenance in Bentiu by February, after months of some of the most severe flooding in years.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025

Azar sat down on the dike next to Norman Bowker.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

A 1624-vintage perpetual Dutch security, originally bearing a yield of 6.25% and denominated in gold, was issued to finance essential repairs to some dikes along the lower Rhine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Big Bend, bordering Mexico in West Texas, features volcanic dikes, dinosaur bones and stunning canyon views.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

The Dutch -- with their dikes, dams and vast waterworks--have long been admired for their tenacity in the face of flood risks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

The new study examined dikes, which are narrow fractures that could theoretically serve as channels for ocean water moving upward through the ice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

“Stay away from the dikes and work back toward the staging area!”

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

The delta was once filled with vast tidal marshes but was dramatically altered as wetlands were diked, drained and converted to farmland.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2022

Beginning in the late 1800s, the land was logged, then later drained and diked for farming.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2018

For the past 150 years, the marshy area where salmon bred and fed has been dried, diked and dammed.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2014

We have probably diked off too much of the river's active flood plain; in many cases close to 90 percent of the historic flood plain.

From Scientific American ● May 13, 2011

It was occupied by a large rice plantation, which naturally overflowed about two feet at high tide, but which had been ditched and diked so that the flow was regulated at the flood-gates.

From A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry by Julian Wisner Hinkley

The Corps of Engineers has to approve the permits because work will be done near the Columbia River diking system and in and around wetlands, Bennett added.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

Oystermen started diking tidelands and cultivating the precious bivalves like a crop — and for a while, they prospered.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

"We need to repair 75 years of diking and draining, but that takes time," he said.

From US News ● Jul. 1, 2016

The Souris was ripping along at 6,610 cfs at Broadway Bridge, a higher flow than what much of the diking in the city was believed able to contain.

From Washington Times ● May 29, 2016

Given Cahokia’s engineering expertise, though, solutions were within reach: terracing hillsides, diking rivers, even moving Cahokia.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann