river

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They gather drinking water from a river, start fires with sticks, arrange palm fronds for one type of shelter and ice blocks for another, as well as prepare meals of cactus and beetles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

"There are nowhere near enough river sample measurements to quantify inputs to estuaries along the entire Alaskan North Slope."

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

And so the plot tracks Tereza’s episodic adventures on the run, escaping to sail down the river in search of a working airplane.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Laraba Adamu, who was newly married at the time, remembers hostility at the river where she fetched water.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Clare slowed, approaching the sound of human voices mingled with the rushing river.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman