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Pan said in a statement that menstrual effluent (blood and tissue) shed from the uterus each month is often overlooked as medical waste—and even stigmatized by some—but could help with earlier and more accessible endometriosis detection.
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Health Reporter, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
The wastewater treatment plant would sent 850,000 gallons of effluent per day into Fellows Creek which flows through Canton and frequently floods, and would diminish existing water quality.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
In the summer of 2023 millions of residents of New York City and other metropolises saw dark-orange daytime skies thick with smoke palls from Canadian wildfires—and breathed in the effluent.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
After industrial effluent polluted the lake, the seawall was reopened to flush the pollution out.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2013
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Health Reporter, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 July 2025
The wastewater treatment plant would sent 850,000 gallons of effluent per day into Fellows Creek which flows through Canton and frequently floods, and would diminish existing water quality.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 18 July 2025
In the summer of 2023 millions of residents of New York City and other metropolises saw dark-orange daytime skies thick with smoke palls from Canadian wildfires—and breathed in the effluent.
—Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
After industrial effluent polluted the lake, the seawall was reopened to flush the pollution out.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for effluent
distributary
Noun
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Delhi gets its water from the Yamuna river, while Kolkata uses water from the Hooghly river, a distributary of the Ganga.—
Sanjana Venkatesan,
Quartz India,
2 July 2019
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By the 1950s, scientists noticed the consequences: more water was going down the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi.—
Boyce Upholt,
Time,
9 May 2019
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“Effluent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/effluent. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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