wind
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"The wind is favourable and the current rainfall is helping to contain the spread" of the fire, said Hosmans.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
German energy giant RWE said it will abandon wind leases off the coast of New York, Louisiana and Northern California near Humboldt, further challenging the Golden State’s clean energy ambitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
That process produced X-ray radiation along with a powerful "wind" of gas.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
"If it was a different wind direction, it could have been total devastation," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Ohhh, leave me be,” it moaned, gravely, like wind weeping in treetops.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Crowds winded through greenways and walking trails, processing through thin paths in single-file lines and dodging annoyed runners and whizzing bikers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
Why does a brief jog leave some people winded while others seem to glide along with ease?
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
Mascalusco used to have an active lifestyle, but the damage to her lungs made it so she could barely go up and down the stairs of her Utah home without feeling winded.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
He arrived in India in 1988, a young man seeking work, and has since been winded through cities - Nagpur, Belgaum, Goa, Nasik - before settling in the western metropolis.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
Suitcases swinging by their sides, Penelope and the children half skipped and half tumbled down the grassy slopes, only stopping when they were winded and could no longer catch breath enough to laugh.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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The idea resembles winding optical fiber around a spool, but nanofabrication makes it possible to fit the path into a far smaller footprint.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Most retailers make their year around Christmas, but the festive season for home improvement is just winding down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
His seasonal job is winding down, and the tax collector’s leaders have said they want to incorporate more technology into their operations — as have many corporate executives.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, thousands more are waiting in county jails for cases that are winding through a new, convoluted and confusing system where geography controls the rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The dialogue spoken onstage no longer sounded like words but like the last ticks of a dying clock winding down.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
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Medical applications include wound dressings, drug delivery systems, and resorbable implants or sutures that slowly degrade inside the body.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
"We have to remove the band-aid and then look at the sore, the gaping wound that's present," Asare says about what he sees as real "reparations".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
After heading that summer to San Francisco to intern at a Y-Combinator-backed company called LendUp, she wound up staying in the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
The storyline also pushed Williams to reopen an old wound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
He had been so wound up in trying to get home, he had not noticed the ebbing of the crisis until now.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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