sewage

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Recent Examples of sewage The Howard County Health Department released a public notification Friday after a sewage overflow in Columbia. Mathew Schumer, Baltimore Sun, 10 May 2025 Trump has two courses in Scotland and ran into opposition for the one in Aberdeen, Scotland, where environmental and conservation groups raised concerns about sewage pollution and dune preservation. Bart Jansen, USA Today, 9 May 2025 Measuring 25km long and able to hold more than four million gallons of sewage, the Tideway project was built to help divert waste away from the Thames and keep the iconic river cleaner. Meredith Kile, People.com, 7 May 2025 But during heavy rain, raw sewage is still getting dumped in the river and can flow into the marsh. Laura Geller, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sewage
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Noun
  • Dallas Police Department Assistant Chief Catrina Shead said in a press conference, shared by WFAA-TV, that the three children and an adult were struck by a pickup truck near Felix Botello Elementary School in Dallas.
    Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 24 May 2025
  • Gas-guzzling pickup trucks are emblematic of red states; overpriced EVs are icons of blue states.
    Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • Spacecraft are assembled in cleanrooms, which are highly specialized facilities engineered to maintain exceptionally low levels of dust and microorganisms.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • The system also spawned tornadoes in Wisconsin, brought punishing heat to Texas and temporarily enveloped parts of Illinois — including Chicago — in a pall of dust on an otherwise sunny day.
    Dylan Lovan, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Across the 80-plus works featured will be early figurative paintings, abstractions from her mid-career period, and more recent works, some of which are adorned with refuse and allowed to hang free from the wall.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The Russian spacecraft will remain docked to the station for about six months as it is refilled with refuse and trash by the ISS crew.
    Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 1 Mar. 2025

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“Sewage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sewage. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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