troughs
Example Sentences
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Mexican government forecasters say troughs - small-scale low pressure features - are expected in the middle and upper layers of the atmosphere over central parts of Mexico on Sunday, making the atmosphere very unstable.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
If the war is mercifully short and risk appetite troughs in March, as Hartnett and team expect, then the bid for what he refers to as the inflation boom beneficiaries should reassert itself.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026
“The tips of the waves are called ridges and the bottoms of the waves are called troughs, and so the atmosphere flows just like water.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
But its shape, though haunting, is also oddly inviting, bringing to mind stone troughs and thirsty animals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
During the fall and winter the salmon eggs, large and thick- shelled, lay in shallow gravel-filled troughs, or redds, which the mother fish had dug in the stream bottom.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
