pond

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Recent Examples of pond The enormous cooling towers and evaporation ponds were marginally more interesting — all that recycled water, baking in the Sonoran Desert. Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2025 There’s also a one-bedroom guest house, which makes an overnight trip for friends and an easier sell, plus a nearby pond and winding stone paths. Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 15 May 2025 To the visitors’ surprise, there is a virtual pharmacy in plants, plus a few freshwater ponds and even rain one night in the dry winter. Angela Dansby, CNN Money, 14 May 2025 Residents saw small ponds nearly dry and lawns turn brown. Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pond
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pond
Noun
  • Thanks to the microclimate around the lake, this allows the cherries to thrive despite the harsher temperatures of the region.
    Em Sauter, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • There’s the mix of distinctive scenery, from the French Quarter to the swamps to deserts, lakes and cities that can stand in for other more expensive metropolises from New York to Taipei.
    Stuart Miller, Variety, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • This water–ice reservoir could be instrumental in the development of any planetary system that might exist around HD 181327.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 May 2025
  • In reality, the trust fund is not a reservoir into which an employee pays when working, then draws upon when retired.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • For example, take a warm bath (lagoon), then dunk your face in ice (cold plunge), followed by a hot and cold shower, then a shot of ginger juice.
    Essence, Essence, 16 May 2025
  • The lagoon is a habitat for a number of species of bats rarely seen by visitors.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • The two main tarns on this trail are flanked by subalpine meadows with a variety of shrubs and wildflowers that change colors in the fall.
    Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
  • What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
Noun
  • Likewise, while the castle at Balmoral has been valued at $80 million, the Times includes the surround estate — including vast lochs, mountains and moores — at around $278 million.
    Meredith Kile, People.com, 16 May 2025
  • The Loch Ness monster, in a grainy image now considered iconic, appeared as a dinosaur-like creature cruising across Scotland’s famous loch, or lake.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Pond.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pond. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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