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Recent Examples of deposition
Miley was tabbed by Skaggs’ former agent, Ryan Hamil, in a deposition earlier this year as a drug supplier to Skaggs.
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
In her own deposition conducted in October 2023, Avila said the dog pounced on her without warning.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
By Olivia Carvillem Bloomberg Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest social media companies.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
During depositions, Riverside attorneys seemed to try to cast doubt on the very existence of the storage room.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
In her own deposition conducted in October 2023, Avila said the dog pounced on her without warning.
—Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
By Olivia Carvillem Bloomberg Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest social media companies.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
During depositions, Riverside attorneys seemed to try to cast doubt on the very existence of the storage room.
—Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deposition
Noun
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Climatologists now know that volcanic dust was beginning to fall out of the atmosphere at that point, but marine sediments, tree rings, and other evidence extracted from archives of nature suggest that Arctic temperatures had not recovered.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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In the Yamhill-Carlton and Ribbon Ridge AVAs are perched on 55-million-year-old marine sediments, while the Eola-Amity Hills and Dundee Hills AVAs sit on 12-million-year-old volcanic soils.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The main channel of the Amazon River constantly erodes existing land and deposits new earth.—
Isa Cardona,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Suzuki argued that Japan had enough uranium deposits at home and overseas to build the bomb.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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These silts were left behind when ancient river channels filled up or when floodwaters slowed down and gently dropped tiny particles.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
18 Oct. 2025
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Timber cutting in the Adirondack Mountains was causing so much erosion that the eastern canal’s feeder rivers were filling up with silt.—
Christine Keiner,
The Conversation,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Deposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deposition. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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