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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alluviums
detritus
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No writing room can be pristine, but the detritus must not outweigh the buzzing, trembling atmosphere of solemn, serious work.—
Katie da Cunha Lewin
September 26,
Literary Hub,
26 Sep. 2025 -
Any kind of hard material attracts fauna in water, says Andrey Vedenin, a marine biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany, who was not involved in the Mallows Bay study but co-authored a separate new paper that detailed wildlife thriving on war detritus in the Baltic Sea.—
Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Alluviums.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alluviums. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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