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delta

[del-tuh] / ˈdɛl tə /






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For decades, so much water has been taken that the river seldom meets the sea in Mexico, and its delta, once filled with lush wetlands and forests, has shriveled to stretches of dry riverbed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Fishermen working the sea between the Irrawaddy delta and the coast of Mon state found several other bodies nine days later.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

The strategy to carry customers over the delta between Play-Doh for kids and Play-Doh for adults starts with the new Blooms brand name.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

Saltwater is beginning to contaminate farmland reclaimed over the past five centuries from the delta marshes.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

There, just shy of the city, the Uzumark broadened into a delta and was sliced into ribbons by boulders and small islands before simply vanishing.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

A new study published in Nature finds that many of the world's largest river deltas are subsiding more quickly than global sea levels are rising, putting hundreds of millions of people at potential risk.

From Science Daily Apr. 20, 2026

That means they are also imperiling some of the world’s most important food-producing lowlands in the Nile and Mekong deltas and cities from Shanghai to New York.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2025

Netherlands can serve as a role model for deltas worldwide, according to the authors.

From Science Daily Nov. 21, 2024

In his badly penned sigmas and deltas she spied the shaking hand of her son’s growing anxiety.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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