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News reports described how hormones in the runoff from pharmaceutical manufacturing were feminizing fish and detailed the high concentration of antibiotics discovered in riverbeds and sewage.
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Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2025
On the other hand, models that had high spatial resolution—taking into account all the hills, mountains, and riverbeds—could only be run over relatively short time spans.
—ArsTechnica, 13 July 2025
The new clue is the discovery of carbonate minerals found by the robotic Curiosity rover in the vicinity of Gale Crater – a region of Mars marked by dry riverbeds and other evidence of the waters that once flowed on the Red Planet two billion years ago.
—New Atlas, 12 July 2025
Minerals that disintegrate in the presence of oxygen were found locked up in ancient riverbeds older than a certain age.
—Laura Poppick, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
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Thomas J. Bollyky, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2025
On the other hand, models that had high spatial resolution—taking into account all the hills, mountains, and riverbeds—could only be run over relatively short time spans.
—ArsTechnica, 13 July 2025
The new clue is the discovery of carbonate minerals found by the robotic Curiosity rover in the vicinity of Gale Crater – a region of Mars marked by dry riverbeds and other evidence of the waters that once flowed on the Red Planet two billion years ago.
—New Atlas, 12 July 2025
Minerals that disintegrate in the presence of oxygen were found locked up in ancient riverbeds older than a certain age.
—Laura Poppick, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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