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milldam

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as in weir

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Removing the weir will lower the entire lagoon’s water level by several feet and restore the ebb and flow of ocean tides to the basin.

— Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2026
Known as Big John, the man was fined and forced to dismantle his traditional fish weir or risk imprisonment after he was reported for fishing outside of the reservation.

— Aubrey Violeta Gelpieryn, CBS News, 30 May 2026

Definition of weir

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Russia has unleashed waves of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv in recent months, including a barrage of strikes on Monday.

— Elise Spenner, ABC News, 9 July 2026
If Clase’s home run in the second was an uppercut, then Toronto’s offense in the third was a barrage of jabs.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

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The laminate reinforces the glass to create a shatter-resistant barrier, preventing shards of glass from flying out during extreme weather.

— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Staffers wheeled the barriers over from the adjacent University of Washington baseball complex.

— Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 4 July 2026

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Dam Removal Europe found that the number of dams dismantled in 2025, along with other water-flow controls like weirs, culverts and sluices, grew by 11% from the year before.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 3 June 2026
The archways are furnished with sluice gates that can open to allow excess water to pass through in periods of flooding.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026

Definition of sluice

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The single-family home located in the 2200 block of Cherrystone Drive in San Jose was sold on June 1, for $1,750,000, or $1,353 per square foot.

— Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
While the carryout Little Fish location in Echo Park transitions over the next few months to a more permanent space a block away, the only time and place to currently crunch into the sandwich is during lunch service at the new restaurant.

— Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

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Revolutionaries Never Die was awarded the top prize for best project in post-production at the 2025 Cairo Film Connection and was presented at picture lock at the Doha Film Institute’s Qumra 2026.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 July 2026
In one rare path, where a lock operation hits a dead end and has to back out, the cleanup runs at the wrong moment and wipes the wrong task’s record.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

Definition of lock

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Public swimming has been available for years in a canal in northeastern Paris during summer.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the museum offers a patriotic lens into how the canals, highways, railroads and mines that stitched this country together were built by machines born in American factories.

— Malika Bowling, USA Today, 3 July 2026

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