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Recent Examples of floodplain
The coastal floodplain offers premium real estate for nesting.
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Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
The permits dictate that cabins located in the floodplain — which includes most of the little community — cannot be rebuilt.
—Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
That category of states requires disclosing floodplain status but doesn't require disclosing whether the property must have flood insurance.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2025
This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.
—Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
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Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
The permits dictate that cabins located in the floodplain — which includes most of the little community — cannot be rebuilt.
—Michael Slaten, Oc Register, 10 Sep. 2025
That category of states requires disclosing floodplain status but doesn't require disclosing whether the property must have flood insurance.
—Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2025
This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.
—Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
Noun
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Health inspectors cited the soul food restaurant after discovering that the kitchen handwashing sink was blocked with multiple plastic buckets in the sink basin.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Madeline Heim has broadened her focus to include public health, another area of expertise, and continues to keep an eye on the Mississippi River basin.—
GREG BOROWSKI,
jsonline.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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According to the nonprofit, when trees and shrubs take over grasslands, groundwater and prairie streams get depleted, soil health is compromised, and the bedrock below the grasslands is altered.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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They are also considered expert navigators and have returned to some of the same grasslands for thousands of years.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Oct. 2025
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The drama continues to unfold in lower canyons into December.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Oct. 2025
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And a wide range of brands including fast-casual restaurant Sweetgreen and luxury outerwear brand Canada Goose have embraced cowboy hats and rusted-red canyon backdrops in ad campaigns.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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According to the nonprofit, when trees and shrubs take over grasslands, groundwater and prairie streams get depleted, soil health is compromised, and the bedrock below the grasslands is altered.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
17 Oct. 2025
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The decision covers massive stretches of eastern Montana grasslands, rolling North Dakota prairie, and mountains and tundra of Alaska.—
Christine Peterson,
Outdoor Life,
9 Oct. 2025
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Swerve to avoid a car that's swerving to avoid a pothole.—
Ryan Murphy,
IndyStar,
25 Sep. 2025
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Others warn of potholes in the roads, library closures, and less fire and police protection.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
19 Sep. 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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Mandatory evacuations were active along the Colorado 13 corridor from the White River near Meeker to south of Piceance Creek Road in Garfield County, parts of Rio Blanco County east of Willow Creek and south of Piceance Creek, and gulches west of Colorado 13.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
10 Aug. 2025
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The once-damp rainforest canopy could shift to a dry savanna for at least several centuries.—
Alexandra A Phillips,
The Conversation,
13 Oct. 2025
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The species was thought to be restricted to the Amazon Rainforest and the regions that border the forest before the Cerrado, or savanna, begins, according to the study.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
13 Oct. 2025
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Trek the Weeping Ridge Trail to see the leaves from deep within a ravine.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Oct. 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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