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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alluvion
Noun
  • And that flood will continue for 10 years straight as the Rubin Observatory executes its signature project, dubbed the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST).
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • Without good plumbing, teams can drown in a flood of false positives or irrelevant data.
    Alex Lanstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • Fucci, who was staying near the Guadalupe River, filmed on her phone a torrent of muddy water flooding the road to her grandmother's house.
    Susan Miller, USA Today, 6 July 2025
  • Trump’s second term has unleashed a torrent of assaults on protest and dissent, from revoking visas and disappearing activists, to withholding federal funds from universities that won’t dismantle diversity initiatives.
    Time, Time, 2 July 2025
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“Alluvion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alluvion. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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