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Officials said Sturluson, 23 – who was experiencing homelessness – was shot May 1 after asking the teen and Curtis to stop firing into a arroyo, or dry creek, that was close by.
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025
And while our street was close enough to the national forest that bears and bobcats were not uncommon sights, it was also separated from it by a dry arroyo and five blocks of houses in between.
—Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
Following last year’s Bridge fire, which scorched habitat in the East Fork of the San Gabriel River, 503 rainbows — in addition to Santa Ana speckled dace, Santa Ana sucker and arroyo chub — were relocated to nearby streams, Evans said.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
The bodies of 11 women aged between 15 and 32 were found in an arroyo outside Albuquerque in 2009, after a local walking her dog found a human bone and alerted authorities.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 July 2024
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Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025
And while our street was close enough to the national forest that bears and bobcats were not uncommon sights, it was also separated from it by a dry arroyo and five blocks of houses in between.
—Josh Eells, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2025
Following last year’s Bridge fire, which scorched habitat in the East Fork of the San Gabriel River, 503 rainbows — in addition to Santa Ana speckled dace, Santa Ana sucker and arroyo chub — were relocated to nearby streams, Evans said.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
The bodies of 11 women aged between 15 and 32 were found in an arroyo outside Albuquerque in 2009, after a local walking her dog found a human bone and alerted authorities.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 1 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arroyo
Noun
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The original one, fed by a nearby brook, has been out of commission for decades, and two others, installed by the current owners, haven’t been used in several years.—
Kim Velsey,
Curbed,
27 Aug. 2025
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Connected blocks created a bridge across a brook and carried lightweight objects.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Farmers overapplying them in their fields can cause nitrogen-laden runoff that pollutes water and the air.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
10 Sep. 2025
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These factors, combined with Cincinnati’s temperamental plumbing, meant that during major storm events, the zoo’s runoff rainwater would flood the basements of area residents.—
Leyla Shokoohe,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The dry creek isn’t just decorative.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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Locally heavy rain will quickly reduce visibility and result in ponding of water on roadways, standing water in low lying areas, and minor flooding of creeks, streams, and areas of poor drainage.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The show is, of course, trading in familiar stereotypes for all its real-life characters, but there is something about its bespoke combination of the retro and the fresh.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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In northern Italy’s Alto Adige region, chardonnay is lean, minerally and mountain-fresh—proof the grape was never the problem, just the stereotype.—
Devin Parr,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Two and a half feet of rain beat down upon the face of the San Gabriels, wiping out the rustic resorts wedged into the canyons, and chuting runoff waters down onto the plain along ancient dry rivulets and freshets and canyons that Angelenos had forgotten or never known about.—
Patt MorrisonColumnist,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2023
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The Hudson River had a little current, fed by freshets from upstream with local rains, and melting snow farther up, in the Adirondacks.—
Ian Frazier,
The New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2020
Noun
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Several rivulets flowed lazily through the debris.—
Daniel A. Gross,
New Yorker,
27 Aug. 2025
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In the early 1990s, as Illinois allowed the operation of floating gaming venues, the rivulet was considered by one developer to house a riverboat casino.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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His verses evoke sacred rivers, fertile grounds and gardens bright with sinuous rills—a lyrical world beyond the inauspicious reality of its start-point.—
Natalie Hoberman,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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Earthbound telescopes saw rills or gullies that later proved to be collapsed lava tubes.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
16 July 2024
Noun
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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Atop that mesa, hidden in a sandstone coulee, our campfire burned a hole in the darkness.—
Outdoor Life,
Outdoor Life,
6 Nov. 2020
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“Arroyo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arroyo. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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