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New geophysical surveys and coring of the wadi would shed more light on the hydrological aspects of the area, while other surveys might reveal where the eastward tunnels of the pyramid lead.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
The building was built in a wadi.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
The wadi stretched outside the window.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that.
—Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
—Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi.
—Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
But in the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began a new settlement at Jerash, mostly on the eastern bank of the wadi, on top of the ancient remains of that half of the city.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
The spring that filled the Birketein reservoir, where modern residents swim, would have supplied about a quarter of the ancient city, along with water from upstream in the wadi.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
The building was built in a wadi.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
The wadi stretched outside the window.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that.
—Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
—Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi.
—Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
But in the late 1800s, the Ottoman Empire began a new settlement at Jerash, mostly on the eastern bank of the wadi, on top of the ancient remains of that half of the city.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
The spring that filled the Birketein reservoir, where modern residents swim, would have supplied about a quarter of the ancient city, along with water from upstream in the wadi.
—Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 30 May 2018
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“Wadi.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wadi. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.
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wadi
noun
wa·di
ˈwäd-ē 
: the bed or valley of a stream in regions of southwestern Asia and northern Africa that is usually dry except during the rainy season
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