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Noun
  • Among the schools was TCU, whose players and coaches also wore green ribbons on their lapels at Big 12 Media Days back in July, less than a week after the flood.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
  • On Tuesday, 85 scientists released a 459-page rebuttal to the DOE report, highlighting a large body of scientific literature pointing to how climate change can exacerbate droughts, floods, crop failures, and other disasters.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Flash floods are usually characterized by raging torrents after heavy rains.
    AZCentral.com, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Eight hours of work yield only eight hours of data, a trickle against the torrent that powered language models.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
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“Alluvion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alluvion. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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