shallow
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Cool promptly in shallow containers, label and refrigerate.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
“Between the homes, a freeform pool curves through natural rock, hiding a grotto and a slide, with a shallow ledge for lounging and an elevated spa,” according to the listing.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Around the islands, shallow waters glow in brilliant shades of turquoise, contrasting sharply with the dark blue of the deeper surrounding ocean.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Images of the so-called Taraia Object show what could be the remnants of a small aircraft sitting in shallow waters.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
A lump rises in the base of my throat, tightening my airway and shortening my breaths to shallow gulps.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
Meanwhile, the ground around its active Santiago crater and lava lake continued to sink, suggesting that a separate, shallower magma reservoir was behaving differently.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
The shallower the earthquake, the more likely it is to have more severe effects on the surface.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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
Young sharks tend to remain in the refuge of shallower areas near the shore where larger predators are less common.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
She said, “Yeah. You know, I think death is shallower now. It used to be a hole you fell into and kept falling. Now it’s just a blank.”
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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
Still, I hope Sandro sticks around for many more weeks for the shallowest reason ever.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2022
It’s a shame that, despite a few charming moments that show some depth, the film only offers the shallowest of dips into the ocean that is modern queer culture.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
The moon was hidden somewhere behind the blinding glare, and it felt like the city itself was collapsing, pressing in, taking only the shallowest of breaths in the squeeze of lost space.
From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds
A few children splashed in the shallows as the surfers paddled out to sea, fighting the crashing waves.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Evie first saw the pale axolotl nestled in the rocks after lifting up a discarded mat in the shallows of the River Ogmore.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 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
His uncle turned the boat and shipped the oars and they drifted over the sandy shallows until the transom grated in the sand.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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 water, which up to this time had been fully six feet in depth, suddenly shallowed to less than a quarter of that, so that he struck his knees against the bottom.
From Through Apache Lands by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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
Other times, I get too steep with my swing. and I can't get the ball to do what I want, so I work on shallowing my angle of attack.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 19, 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
She could feel the dream shallowing, like a sleek ship beaching on a shoal.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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