basin
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Temperatures will be in the 80s and 90s in the basin and could top 100 in inland valleys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
That changed when China's Chang'e 6 mission brought back 1.935 grams of regolith from the South Pole Aitken basin on the lunar far side.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
BlueNord has interests in asset production across the Danish Continental Shelf—an offshore basin with geological and operational similarities to the Norwegian Continental Shelf and Var Energi’s existing North Sea assets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
It's a far cry from basin depths in Silesia -- a historic coal mining region in southern Poland where he still extracts the ore.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
I pour water into a basin and take it to the bedroom to rinse my face.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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The absence of sediment across that roughly 2,000-year period indicates that water no longer covered parts of the lake basins.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
"The crystallisation basins are covered by grass and sheath and so on. This is not the landscape that usually salinas are," she said, explaining the changes to the area that saltwork pumping created.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
Marine cloud brightening has often been proposed for the eastern sides of ocean basins because of its strong cooling potential.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
Infrastructure in the highly populated basins of major European rivers such as the Danube, the Rhine and the Volga is projected to be exposed to significant flooding, said UNECE.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The argument between Mr. and Mrs. Dalai was still more or less in effect early the next morning, when a barefoot team of workmen came to install the basins.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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