slough
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Aiello, who has monitored environmental conditions at the slough for more than a decade, said he was shocked by the results.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025
While disease is a natural part of marine ecosystems, increased runoff, global climate change and a slough of human impacts stress corals and cause disease.
From Science Daily • May 30, 2024
Meaning, they tried to blast each other with powder, basically slough a mini avalanche or powder storm on top of each other.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2024
Varon describes her famously mercurial subject as “gloomy” and “in a funk,” struggling to “fight his way out of his slough of despond,” harboring “a fatalistic despair.”
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023
She ran down to the water’s edge and stared out into the slough.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
Vocabulary lists containing slough
"Of Mice and Men"
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman?" (1863)
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