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small rivulets trickled down the side of the cliff
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Then there was a rare (now-deleted) Instagram carousel posted almost one year ago with a photo of Lorde leaning over a balcony in a black dress with a rivulet of white spit coming out of her mouth.
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025
Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.
—Chris Hedges, Harpers Magazine, 15 June 2024
The body meld transforms into a mind meld near the end, when each woman shoots streams of shiny water from their eyes, with the separate rivulets crashing into each other to form a floating, fiery disco ball heart.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
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Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 25 June 2025
Younis: The Khan Younis refugee camp is a dense, gray, concrete shantytown, the black waters from sewers running in thin rivulets down the middle of alleys.
—Chris Hedges, Harpers Magazine, 15 June 2024
The body meld transforms into a mind meld near the end, when each woman shoots streams of shiny water from their eyes, with the separate rivulets crashing into each other to form a floating, fiery disco ball heart.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 10 Mar. 2025
But, as Barak argues, people experience heat not as remotely sensed data points but in rivulets of sweat.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Rivulet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rivulet. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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rivulet
noun
riv·u·let
ˈriv-(y)ə-lət 
: a small stream
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