tributary
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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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Physical Geography - Introductory
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