shallow
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The space is shallow and compressed, like a theater set, and details are few and deliberate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Located in shallow waters, the site is slated to start producing gas from next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
About 80 degrees North, this remote island area was once covered by a shallow sea.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The shallow cut had reopened on my palm.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
That study also found evidence that the slab was shallower offshore than earlier estimates suggested.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
It’s creating shallower and more fragile relationships and communities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
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
“The case is still there to cut rates, but the cycle will be shallower or postponed,” Larose says.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
I guess we are going to take the obelisk off The Dessoug here & move it to another boat that can travel in shallower water.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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
Still, I hope Sandro sticks around for many more weeks for the shallowest reason ever.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022
It’s a shame that, despite a few charming moments that show some depth, the film only offers the shallowest of dips into the ocean that is modern queer culture.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
The shallowest waves lap against mere inches of shore.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Divers tied stone weights around their ankles and held their breath as they sank to the bottom of the shallows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A few children splashed in the shallows as the surfers paddled out to sea, fighting the crashing waves.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
They frequent the shallows surrounding Friday Harbor Labs, the UW research facility located on San Juan Island.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025
Rips are strong currents running out to sea which can quickly drag people from the shallows of the shoreline and out to deeper water.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
A lake of meltwater had formed on top of the glacier, and there was Roz, sitting in the shallows.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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
But here it shallowed widely and slipped over a long surface of unbroken bed-rock.
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
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
She could feel the dream shallowing, like a sleek ship beaching on a shoal.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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