puddle
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“If you’re trying to compact a mud puddle, it wouldn’t really compact, right?” he said at a trailhead off of Agoura Road.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
If there has been rain the night before, the hawk will take a bath in a puddle on the court's roof.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
As we watched the group wander about, a female capybara waded into a mud puddle along the truck path and rolled around happily.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
Now, when we approach kids crowding the sidewalk, a curbside puddle or a dog crouching to pee, I stop and extend my arm like Sir Walter Raleigh, offering Sarah the right of first passage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
This one was tucked away in an area where private jets and small puddle jumpers landed and took off.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Never fear; she’s also seen stomping through puddles, the hallmark of every strong-willed lady.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
There’s sculling lingo to learn — eight seat, catching a crab, puddles, the engine room, rushing the slide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
As access reopened mid-morning, AFP saw the blackened remains of several burnt-out cars along roads near Omis, some ringed by silver puddles of metal that had melted under the intense heat of the fires.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
"I was in a wedding dress and I was running barefoot through the puddles," says Iryna.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Her shoes were soaked from stumbling through puddles.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
We didn’t have a plan, just each other and the puddled roads.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Video posted by a WTVF-TV reporter shows the water puddled up on the main floor’s concourse area and the team store.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
As rain poured and puddled on the sideline at Ross-Ade Stadium, the Purdue mascot dared the cheerleader to jump into the water.
From Fox News ● Oct. 2, 2021
The rewards might be a warm-spiced cabernet franc from the Loire Valley and loose coffee pastry cream puddled in a chocolate tart brushed with espresso syrup.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2021
The light lowered and there was June Somerset, books puddled around her feet.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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Others, fabricated from translucent amber resin that has hardened to a glossy sheen, are low and horizontal, oozing and puddling across the floor like pools of blood or toxic spills.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024
"There have been numerous local measurements and theoretical discussions regarding the effects of water puddling on ice albedo," Kaczmarowski said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 15, 2024
Their purplish, blurred silhouettes seem printed on top of the ridges of milky paint depicting pale, layered figures and puddling abstractions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
I have no actual evidence of puddling editors, but no matter.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
A finger of warm wax was puddling out across the Bay of Seals, slow as a glacier.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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