wavy
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Shortly after 6am, an analyst at the University of Utah Seismograph Stations sees a series of sharp spikes interrupting the usually quiet wavy lines recorded by Yellowstone’s earthquake monitors.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Over a woozy, wavy groove that sounds like a water-damaged recording of a jazz-fusion ballad as it stretches past seven minutes, she tosses out observations about African-American history and the state of the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Bernard lives next to the project site and has documented multiple desert tortoises on and around her property — including Squiggles, who was given the nickname for leaving wavy tracks in the sand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
Portugal will look wavy in this kit inspired by the Atlantic Ocean, which borders the country.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2026
Her hair hung down her back, smooth and wavy, so dark it shone with blue highlights in the sun.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
High in the air, invisible, migrating wavies winged into the south, the distant gabble of their passing falling weirdly earthward.
From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse
September waned, and the laggard rear-guard of the brant and Hutchins geese, riding the first stinging northers, passed south in the wake of the wavies.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
We would never have been such good friends," said Nan on one occasion, "if I hadn't wanted to go to your house, Gabriel, to see how your grandmother wavies her hair.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris
On fair days the sun flashed from white fleets of "wavies," bound through seas of April skies to far Arctic ports.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
When cooler and warmer waters meet, the sharp contrast changes the air above, making the jet stream wavier and slower, according to researchers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
They say that global warming is making these currents increasingly "wavier", which means it's meandering and not following a steady path.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
A 2022 study suggests the jet stream will became wavier and stagnant as the planet warms, allowing weather like extreme rainfall to "park" over a region and causing dangerous flooding.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 26, 2024
That leads to weakening of the high-altitude winds called the polar jet stream. which becomes more sinuous, or wavier, and allows the polar vortex to spread southward.
From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2022
Seven looked up and saw a picture of what looked like Thorn with shorter, wavier hair.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Last year was the waviest example of this pressure phenomenon in 145 years, said Overland.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 5, 2011
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