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tributary

[trib-yuh-ter-ee] / ˈtrɪb yəˌtɛr i /


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The 500-million-euro Achelous tributary project is to be completed by 2029.

From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025

Cleanup teams are skimming and pumping oil from the tributary and deploying absorbent booms and pads to recover oil trapped along the creek bed.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

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

Why not alter the course of that human tributary so that it fed southward?

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead




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