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Twenty years after O’Malley first disappeared, unidentified partial skeletal remains were found in a riverbed off a highway, according to the sheriff’s office.
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Sam Gillette, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Three decades after remains were found in a California riverbed, they’ve been identified as a missing New York teenager, deputies say.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2025
My vegetable garden resembled a cracked riverbed, the soil so hard that weeding was nearly impossible.
—Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
In a cave in southern Italy, archaeologists sifted through a muddy riverbed normally submerged by the turquoise waters of an underground river.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
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Sam Gillette, People.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Three decades after remains were found in a California riverbed, they’ve been identified as a missing New York teenager, deputies say.
—Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 25 Mar. 2025
My vegetable garden resembled a cracked riverbed, the soil so hard that weeding was nearly impossible.
—Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
In a cave in southern Italy, archaeologists sifted through a muddy riverbed normally submerged by the turquoise waters of an underground river.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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