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"Unlike typical shallow reefs, it does not always form a single continuous reef structure. Instead, it can appear as patchy or scattered coral communities spread across the seafloor."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

"As the plane began to submerge, we exited the aircraft and swam to a shallow area, where we waited until emergency responders reached us by boat," Tiffany wrote on social media.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Right fielder Jordan Walker and second baseman José Fermín both raced after Betts’ shallow fly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Her observations complicated the existing picture because shallow buoyancy forces could explain much of the expected motion across the rift, but not the movement running along it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 1, 2026

Upon reaching the cistern and finding it unattended, he worked quickly, draining the shallow pool of its crystal-clear water and replacing it with the heavy, fragrant wine of his court.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

This intensified circulation caused the thermocline, the boundary between warmer surface water and colder deep water, to become shallower across the Atlantic.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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

These strike-slip earthquakes can occur at shallower depths than subduction quakes, where one tectonic plate is forced below another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

The pace of construction on buildings with five or more units dropped roughly 42% in May from April, while single-family units decreased by a shallower 1.9%.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

“Going to have another go anyway, try a shallower descent. Still have quite a lot of fuel, don’t really want to crash and go up in flames.”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

The yield curve continued to 'bear steepen' to show its shallowest inversion between two and 10-year yields in more than a year and actually in positive territory between two and 20 years.

From Reuters ● Oct. 19, 2023

And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2023

They are faux bullies with no heart, only a head for the fight and no care for anything but the shallowest of victories.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2022

The shallowest waves lap against mere inches of shore.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

A few children splashed in the shallows as the surfers paddled out to sea, fighting the crashing waves.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

This is the kind of art that would find a suitable home in a crypto king’s Miami mansion, and whose pretense of depth can’t conceal its wallowing in the shallows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

They frequent the shallows surrounding Friday Harbor Labs, the UW research facility located on San Juan Island.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2025

Mothers, toddlers and lovers waded through the shallows like shore birds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025

The robot could only stand in the shallows and watch as her son left the other geese behind and desperately swam toward his mother.

From "The Wild Robot" 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

The creek shallowed presently and the banks became very low.

From The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

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

Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin