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Recent Examples of loamMany of us can’t wait to get into our gardens, turn over that fine Illinois loam and plant.—Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2025 Those interactions spring from the rich loam of history and lore that gives the sport its halcyon glow, and from which even a humble amateur game absorbs vicarious grandeur.—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2025 Emerging research suggests that there can be restorative effects to—for example—hearing birdsong, seeing trees, or smelling pleasant natural scents, such as loam or leaves.—Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025 This rare sand was fine-grained and had a tiny amount of loam in it.—Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for loam
The set is available in 19 colors, including a rich clay shade ideal for autumn.
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Melody Kazel,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
The wafer-thin coating of clay remained long after the underlying tissues decayed completely, retaining their detailed morphology and forming a perfect clay mask.
This clay molding process was known to preserve the form of soft animals in oxygen-poor areas, such as the muds at the bottom of lagoons and deep-sea trenches, Sereno says.
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Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
Turbulence in Lake Nyos changes the color from clear blue to mud-brown or reddish from iron sediments.
The second photo was noticeably different from the first, instead showing a recent image of heavy machinery smoothing gravel where lush green grass once grew.
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Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
Federal agents reported that the man struck an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle with his truck before driving across his gravel yard and hitting a post near the front door.
The phenomenon, known as granular jamming, has long fascinated physicists who study how materials like sand and coffee grounds can switch from flowing freely to becoming rigid under pressure.
Among seismic sports television changes during the past 50 years, the NBA’s new media rights deal, one that officially begins this week, isn’t quite as earth-shaking as CBS losing the NFL to Fox in 1994 or ABC losing Monday Night Football in 2005.
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Barry Jackson
Updated October 21,
Miami Herald,
21 Oct. 2025
Similar to finding that planets do not orbit the earth, the search for economics anomalies requires searching for empirical facts that cannot (easily) be explained using the standard economic model where everyone chooses by optimizing and makes no systematic mistakes.
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