shallow
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Located in shallow waters, the site is slated to start producing gas from next year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
In the seventh inning of the Dodgers’ 11-5 victory against the Rockies, Tucker seemed to camp right under a shallow fly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
The IGN said it was the latest in a series of very shallow tremors in the area that started last Friday and were widely felt.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
About 80 degrees North, this remote island area was once covered by a shallow sea.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
It was too shallow to make a cave: merely a hollow where the black basalt of the ravine’s side showed through.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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This supports a developing idea that early animals may have first appeared in offshore, deep marine environments before gradually spreading into shallower coastal waters.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 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
These strike-slip earthquakes can occur at shallower depths than subduction quakes, where one tectonic plate is forced below another.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
The pace of construction on buildings with five or more units dropped roughly 42% in May from April, while single-family units decreased by a shallower 1.9%.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
The edge of the ice sheet was particularly steep where she had fallen, but just below her, it banked at a shallower angle.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
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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
And the actors could find midnight-zone depths even when the siblings and their retainers were at their shallowest.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2023
They are faux bullies with no heart, only a head for the fight and no care for anything but the shallowest of victories.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 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
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On Thursday, the beachside felt calm as a woman was leisurely paddle boarding in the shallows while children played on the beach.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 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
Rips are strong currents running out to sea which can quickly drag people from the shallows of the shoreline and out to deeper water.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
There was movement in the shallows, and up climbed a swarm of small robots.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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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 recent heavy weather has had the effect of altering very much the north channel into Port Curtis, the depth having shallowed from 18 to 11 feet at low water, spring tides.
From Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91 by Australia. Queensland. Department of Ports and Harbours
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
Trying to collect his wits and courage, Vetch spoke the Revelation-spell, watching between each slow-syllabled word for change or tremor of illusion in this strange drying and shallowing of the abyss of ocean.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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