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ponds

noun

plural of pond

as in lakes

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Recent Examples of ponds Her team collected 20 water samples from five temporary rainwater ponds at Gunma Ecological Park in Pará state, Brazil, in April 2025, along with 100 tadpoles of the Venezuela snouted treefrog (Scinax x-signatus) from each pond. — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 12 May 2026

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This has also been seen from orbit many times in photos from the International Space Station and, in fact, was seen by the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn when sunlight reflected off lakes of liquid methane on its huge moon Titan.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026
Climate scientists say as temperatures rise ⁠glaciers in the Himalayas retreat, leaving behind unstable glacial lakes held back by little more than loose rock and ice, above valleys home to millions.

— Reuters, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of lakes

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The team fed the data about the reservoirs of volatile elements of both Earth and Mars into computer models to test which formation scenarios fit best, and the results favor a hybrid model.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Reservoirs of Yersinia pestis exist on every continent except Oceania, however, that does not mean human cases occur everywhere those reservoirs exist.

— Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of reservoirs

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Then come the enigmatic Moai of Easter Island and the luminous lagoons of French Polynesia.

— Guy Bigiaoui, Miami Herald, 28 Sep. 2026
Its tourist industry, built along lagoons and white sand beaches, is among the main economic drivers and source of foreign currency.

— Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of lagoons

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The sprawling coastal property encompasses roughly 3,700 acres of pastureland, woodlands, lochs, and more than three miles of dramatic shoreline.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 June 2026
Covering roughly 260 kilometers from Glasgow to the west coast of Scotland, the West Highland Line is one of the most beautiful routes in the world, offering an ever-changing landscape of rugged mountains, mirror-like lochs, and remote moorlands.

— Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2026

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