effluent

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Recent Examples of effluent And each time, those on the far right contributed more garbage to the information effluent. F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024 Functional or not, septic tanks pollute by releasing human-waste effluent into Florida’s sandy soils. Nicole Kirchhoff, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024 Yet to hear it from a veteran of San Diego’s congressional delegation, the biggest news of late is the final approval of an additional $250 million in federal funding to repair and upgrade the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Ysidro, which cleans up Tijuana’s effluent. U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2025 And each time, those on the far right contributed more garbage to the information effluent. F.d. Flam, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for effluent
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distributary
Noun
  • To the left another plume is coming from the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2013
  • 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 22 Jul. 2025.

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