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Recent Examples of subsoil
Shmyhal said Ukraine would retain control over all resources, subsoil and infrastructure and contributions to the fund would be made in cash with U.S. military aid counting as contributions.
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Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
After scraping you’ll likely be left with subsoil, layers of clay or sand, that lack the life-giving nutrients plants require.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
The Trump administration reintroduced a clause on Ukrainian subsoil resources that obliges Kyiv to repay the full amount of U.S. aid provided since the beginning of the war, which the Kiel Institute said would amount to around $123 billion.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
According to the Constitution, the subsoil where extraction would take place belongs to the Ukrainian people .
—Samya Kullab and Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
After scraping you’ll likely be left with subsoil, layers of clay or sand, that lack the life-giving nutrients plants require.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
The Trump administration reintroduced a clause on Ukrainian subsoil resources that obliges Kyiv to repay the full amount of U.S. aid provided since the beginning of the war, which the Kiel Institute said would amount to around $123 billion.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
According to the Constitution, the subsoil where extraction would take place belongs to the Ukrainian people .
—Samya Kullab and Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subsoil
Noun
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This has led to the fairly obvious conclusion that this substratum of Disney’s movie-making is nothing more than brand promotion and capital gain.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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This was a copy of Mikhail’s unpublished autobiography, Leila explained, the substratum to his monumental Histoire de Baalbek’s six editions.—
Youmna Melhem Chamieh,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The shocker is a plot of earth’s temperature, obtained from ice cores and lake sediments, tracks minima and maxima of the sunspot plot at six different times between 1600 and 2000.—
Ian Dexter Palmer,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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These tools can detect forest loss, identify mining pits and sediment runoff, and analyse changes over time.—
Marian Selorm Sapah,
Space.com,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Healthy soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay, and organic matter, which provide nutrients to plants and help water drain properly.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Aug. 2025
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When similar deep drawdowns occurred at Green Peter and Lookout Point dams in the Willamette Valley, downstream rivers turned brown, and silt challenged the drinking water plants serving towns such as Albany and Lebanon.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
Noun
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The tunnel will traverse multiple difficult subsoil layers: a surface of historical and active landfill materials, including spoil from London tunneling projects and decades-old power station fly ash, a thick layer of alluvium composed of silts, clays, and peat, and, finally, highly variable chalk.—
Theo Burman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 July 2025
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At some point, alluvium buried the entire tusk, possibly from major storm flooding.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
14 Aug. 2024
Noun
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To shape the rugged Hyde Park property, 60,000 pounds of dynamite, 72,000 cubic yards of topsoil, and 57,000 linear feet of drainage pipe were used.—
Boston Herald staff,
Boston Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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During that time, change happens on a molecular level, resulting in a nutrient-rich topsoil.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Many 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
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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
Noun
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In Friuli Venezia Giulia, the soils are rich in marl and sandstone, locally referred to as ponca.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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The vines are planted in limestone, marl, and clay soils and are situated with eastern and southeastern exposures at altitudes of 750 to 1,000 feet so grapes mature perfectly with the right balance of sugars, acid, and minerality.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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When blown by the wind, these sediments are referred to as loess.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
2 Sep. 2021
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Soils here are particularly complex, featuring chalk, sand, gravel, clay, loess, quartzite and slate.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2021
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“Subsoil.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subsoil. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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