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sluice

[sloos] / slus /


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People on social media brandish gold-flecked pans and nuggets while showing off their equipment, ranging from old-fashioned picks to gold-separating sluice boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Other heavy construction equipment including excavators and sluice and slurry pumps were brought in, as well as technical experts and "several hundred tons of gravel and earth", the US Army said.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025

Since November, the gantry cranes that open and close the sluice gates have barely moved, though it was not clear if they had not been working.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Satellite images showed water washing over damaged sluice gates.

From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2023

With no more than a brief conversation, Darwin had inserted a sluice into de Vries’s darting mind, diverting it forever.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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