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Recent Examples of arroyo
This crystal-clear waterway is home to multiple species of fish, including rainbow trout and the (adorable) arroyo chub.
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
There are potsherds and petroglyphs all over, plus an old adobe cabin up in the arroyo.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
There are potsherds and petroglyphs all over, plus an old adobe cabin up in the arroyo.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for arroyo
Noun
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Travel chaos Shawn Harris, left, and Clay Fuller will face each other in a runoff for Georgia's 14th Congressional District to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene.—
Adam Beam,
AJC.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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The polarizing Le Pen qualified for the second-round runoff against Chirac, the incumbent and first-round winner, by a whisker, relegating Jospin to third place.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Its grounds held extensive gardens, a duck pond and a brook.—
Antonia Noori Farzan,
The Providence Journal,
22 Mar. 2026
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With their tiny fences and cottages, a dozen gnomes stood stiff as if at attention yet looked so happy residing on their brook’s muddy banks.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Almost a month later, she was found bludgeoned to death in a creek in eastern Williamson County.—
Claire Osborn,
Austin American Statesman,
21 Mar. 2026
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Officials said some fertilizer spilled into a nearby creek, and hazmat crews are working to limit environmental impacts.—
Andrew Adeolu,
CBS News,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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From cooling it properly to choosing the right containers, these tips will keep frozen soup tasting fresh.—
Riley Wofford,
Martha Stewart,
16 Mar. 2026
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Elsewhere in the episode, Harry Styles made a cameo fresh off of the release of his album Kiss All The Time.—
Hattie Lindert,
Pitchfork,
8 Mar. 2026
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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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With its 18th-century buildings and cobblestones, rue de la Commune feels like the Rive Droite in Paris—except instead of a rivulet, the water is the size of a sea.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
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Hot stones are added, one by one, as the air inside gets heavier, the heat searing the nose and the throat, the sweat starting in rivulets that turn into streams as the smell gets more intense, the heartbeat swells, the mind races.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2026
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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
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The terrain is ideal upland bird habitat, with abundant wheat and soybean fields and plenty of coulees with cover that ringnecks relish.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
11 Dec. 2025
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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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“Arroyo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arroyo. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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