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Recent Examples of floodplain
The team installed beaver-style dams across the Cache la Poudre and Willow Creek watersheds — both burned in the 2020 wildfires — to help slow water flow and instead spread the water over a floodplain.
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Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
When a levee breaches, flooding can be rapid and deep, leaving little time for evacuation and causing damage that spreads far beyond the floodplain.
—Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 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
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Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 30 Dec. 2025
When a levee breaches, flooding can be rapid and deep, leaving little time for evacuation and causing damage that spreads far beyond the floodplain.
—Farshid Vahedifard, The Conversation, 29 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Feb. 2026
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The basin is a long-standing industrial hub that grew around the 1951 discovery of a large, high-pressure sour natural gas field in southwestern France.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
13 Feb. 2026
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The piles are placed in open grassland areas to make sure fire doesn’t catch on the tree canopy, and burns only happen when under strict requirements of wind, temperature, humidity and air quality.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Kenya, which has extensive forests, grasslands and renewable energy resources, hopes to attract foreign investment while ensuring local communities’ benefit.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Travel through passes and canyons could become dangerous, and be alert for rock slides and mud slides.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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Rock and mud slides are possible near steep terrain and along canyon roads.—
Southern California Weather Report,
Oc Register,
16 Feb. 2026
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There’s Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott house, now a museum, its low planes a paean to the Midwestern prairie.—
Caitlin Hu,
CNN Money,
20 Feb. 2026
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This perennial prairie native thrives in poor soil and summer heat, tolerating drought, deer, and pests.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
17 Feb. 2026
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Report a pothole through the Mayor’s Action Center online at RequestIndy or by calling 317-327-4622.—
Katie Wiseman,
IndyStar,
13 Feb. 2026
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How to drive safely and report potholes Hitting a pothole could cause serious damage to your car tires, wheels and shocks.—
Miriam Fauzia,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Since the end of his playing days, Griffey has embraced photography, taking pictures from the African savanna to the Masters Tournament in Georgia.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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The park offers one of the most exciting wildlife experiences in Southern Africa, with a million acres of biodiverse savannas, wetlands, and montane rainforests, and a range of animals that includes buffalo herds, lion prides, and an array of birds.—
Lisa Grainger,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Feb. 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 21 Feb. 2026.
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