dike
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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
“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
That’s the result of an $86 million dike project led by Kazakhstan, with assistance from the World Bank, completed in 2005.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
I looked for the soldier from Charlie Company who had been waving his arm at the dike.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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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 spatial information on dikes and vegetation usually requires good local knowledge and cooperation with the authorities.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023
Along the crest of the ridge the hobbits could see what looked to be the remains of green-grown walls and dikes, and in the clefts there still stood the ruins of old works of stone.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Estuaries — a refuge for growing juvenile salmon — have been diked and drained to create farmland.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
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
Among the dire conditions, some hope arises: In times of drought, work to restore diked shoreline and salt works back to tidal marsh and shallow ponds is paying off for birds.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 16, 2015
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
"And good diked land, or ma'sh as these people call it, is worth about two hundred dollars an acre, isn't it?" went on Mrs. Carter.
From The Raid from Beausejour; and How the Carter Boys Lifted the Mortgage by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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
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Western Europe - Introductory
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