basin
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Across the waterlogged basin, it rained almost 8 inches over New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"A river basin is fed by water upstream, often in another country," she pointed out.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Harbor resonance, in which the shape of a basin reinforces the water's oscillations, helped explain why neighboring ports experienced different effects.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The floods, which destroyed entire villages near the border of Nepal and Tibet, severely damaged 12 hydropower plants in the Trishuli River basin and knocked out more than 10% of Nepal's total power generation capacity.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Soon as we got to Grandpa’s from the cemetery, Mama took Mary Toy’s taffeta dress off and stuck her head in the wash basin on the back porch.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
New dams and debris basins turned the vast natural waterways and springs and creeks of old L.A. into a chutes-and-ladders system to divert and hold back water and mud, before the next time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The Central Water Commission is monitoring 2,485 glacial lakes larger than 10 hectares across India's Himalayan river basins, the government said.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Much past research has examined major ocean basins separately.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
Records tumbled in overheated basins like the Atlantic and Mediterranean and also the tropical Pacific, where the strongest El Nino weather pattern in the modern era is fast accumulating strength.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
The scythes all rose and lined up before two basins, one on either side of the rostrum.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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