tributary
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Toxins entered a tributary feeding the Kafue, Zambia's longest river and a major source of drinking water.
From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026
He also trained as a carpenter and, along with some friends, built his family home on a plot of land along Fish Creek, a tributary of the Snake River, in the shadow of the Tetons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
The River Lugg is a major tributary of the Wye, flowing predominately through Herefordshire.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2025
More than a mile long and 145m high, the dam is on the Blue Nile tributary in the northern Ethiopia highlands, from where 85% of the Nile's waters flow.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2025
Several hundred years later it reached the upper Xingu, a long Amazon tributary with its headwaters deep in southern Brazil.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing tributary
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Africa - Introductory
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