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Recent Examples of floodplain
Because the house is zoned as being in a 25-year floodplain, Freeman cannot accessing the city's home repair programs, according to the Interfaith Action of Central Texas, which nominated her for Season for Caring.
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Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 22 Dec. 2025
Miami-Dade County also maintains its own interactive flood zone maps and floodplain management resources, which can provide additional local detail.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
Many are in Skagit County, where the entire 100-year floodplain has been ordered to evacuate.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Level 3 evacuation orders—meaning leave immediately and seek higher ground—are in place for some areas, including anyone living within the 100-year floodplain of Skagit County and parts of Orting in Pierce County.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
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Keri Heath, Austin American Statesman, 22 Dec. 2025
Miami-Dade County also maintains its own interactive flood zone maps and floodplain management resources, which can provide additional local detail.
—Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
Many are in Skagit County, where the entire 100-year floodplain has been ordered to evacuate.
—Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
Level 3 evacuation orders—meaning leave immediately and seek higher ground—are in place for some areas, including anyone living within the 100-year floodplain of Skagit County and parts of Orting in Pierce County.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
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These reflective masses of relatively young material were deposited many millions of years ago during cataclysmic asteroid strikes that excavated vast basins on the lunar surface.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Benefits include economies of scale, which would help control costs within a depressed price environment for crude, as well as securing additional resources at a time when many shale basins are maturing and new prime development land is at a premium.—
Reuters,
Reuters,
30 Jan. 2026
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All four European expeditions saw a Rapa Nui of gardens and grassland, with no forest or tall trees; Roggeveen had specifically noted Islanders’ excitement at the sight of timber.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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In summer, look for grizzlies wandering among the grasslands of the park’s Hayden Valley.—
Laura Kiniry,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Jan. 2026
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Bring your mountain bike for a beautiful 10-mile ride through Blackstar Canyon Wilderness Park, which boasts views of Irvine Lake, the Santa Ana Mountains and Silverado and Santiago canyons.—
Marla Jo Fisher,
Oc Register,
26 Jan. 2026
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In Sport, carving the canyon roads Deer Creek and Mulholland, the car responds to driver inputs like a fast-twitch muscle.—
Viju Mathew,
Robb Report,
24 Jan. 2026
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He is seen surrounded by an ocean of brown prairie grass, gone dormant for the winter.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
28 Jan. 2026
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Wetlands in the area are also home to Everglades snail kites, which hunt for apple snails in freshwater marshes, and other rare species that once inhabited vast wet prairies drained for highways and neighborhoods.—
Jenny Staletovich,
Miami Herald,
24 Jan. 2026
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Low-slung sports cars and vehicles with oversized tires are especially prone to suffer pothole damage.—
Jim Gorzelany,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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The deep pothole was discovered in the right lane of southbound I-35 over Pflumm Road, according to Delaney Tholen, public information officer for KDOT’s KC Metro office.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
22 Dec. 2025
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In the 1880s, Belgium’s King Leopold II annexed the entire Congo Basin, more than nine hundred thousand square miles of Central African jungle, highlands, savanna, and forest, Katanga included.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Jan. 2026
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That sheer size creates a surprising diversity of landscapes that set Ruaha apart from the Serengeti’s flatter savannas.—
Nicholas DeRenzo,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Jan. 2026
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Farther up the gulch, the water formed a pool, which gave off a rank chemical smell.—
Nick Bowlin,
ProPublica,
29 Oct. 2025
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There were more creeks, high hills, big parks, passes, and open mountainsides with broken, timbered canyons and gulches.—
Fred C. Mercer,
Outdoor Life,
14 Aug. 2025
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Go for a Hike at Woodlands Conservancy Hike through one of the region’s last remaining stands of bottomland hardwood forest at the Woodlands Preserve.—
Kristy Christiansen,
Southern Living,
25 Dec. 2025
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Whitmer, in November 2020, sent notice of her intention to revoke the state's 1953 easement with the company allowing the pipelines underwater on the Straits of Mackinac bottomlands.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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