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But no contaminants have been found in the water, Maryland officials say, after samples were taken both up- and down-river.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2024
The cations and anions of simple electrolytes orient water molecules in both up- and down-orientation.
From Science Daily • Jan. 15, 2024
Algorithms don’t try to anticipate what I want to see, and neither is my feed determined by the whims of a random group of people who can up- or downvote things into oblivion.
From The Verge • Dec. 8, 2018
Usually, it rains an average of 263 days a year in Cologne, which means the Rhine is almost always full of swift-moving water and diesel-fume-belching barges tugging their way up- and downstream.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2018
This mother can carry a hundred pounds of Texas rice up- and downstairs.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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