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drainage

[dray-nij] / ˈdreɪ nɪdʒ /


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“The landscape replaced an asphalt parking lot and is built on top of an underground parking structure, which limits soil depth, weight and drainage and shaped which plants could thrive there,” a museum spokesperson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

It’s become a battle in which the weapons are sandbags, water pumps, sand berms and drainage canals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

What's really going on with the lymphatic drainage beauty trend videos?

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Experts say years of deforestation and peatland drainage in Indonesia have made it more vulnerable to fires during dry periods.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The car was late meeting us—the driver had to avoid an unexpected patrol—Paul and I stood for half an hour shivering and stamping around in the drainage ditch where we hid the bicycle.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

"During these drainages, extensive triangular fracture fields with cracks in the ice formed from 2019 onwards, which are shaped differently from all lake drainages I have seen so far," Humbert said.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026

Ghuge, the manager at Ola's Thane workshop, said reported service issues included battery drainages, software glitches and damaged wires.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2023

San Bernardino County firefighters are focused Monday in the foothills to ensure creeks and drainages were clear, Sherwin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023

It cites environmental concerns associated with the construction, claiming Arizona has "cut down and removed scores of trees, clogged drainages, and degraded the habitat of species listed under the Endangered Species Act".

From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022

Guianas and Amazon Basin; also in the upper Orinoco and Magdalena drainages.

From A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William E. Duellman


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