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Recent Examples of topsoilThe designs naturally accommodate fluctuations from tides and seasonal changes, reducing peak flooding and improving local water quality by limiting topsoil erosion and filtering pollutants.—Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025 High winds brought loose topsoil across the state and into the city, limiting visibility and shocking meteorologists who had not documented a weather event of this kind in the city since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.—Julia Rendleman, ProPublica, 5 Sep. 2025 Dudas ended up using the boulder in his landscaping, making space for the massive rock in his front yard, adding mulch, topsoil, and indigenous plants to the area, as well as other smaller rocks.—Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for topsoil
The set is available in 19 colors, including a rich clay shade ideal for autumn.
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Melody Kazel,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
The wafer-thin coating of clay remained long after the underlying tissues decayed completely, retaining their detailed morphology and forming a perfect clay mask.
The second photo was noticeably different from the first, instead showing a recent image of heavy machinery smoothing gravel where lush green grass once grew.
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Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
Federal agents reported that the man struck an Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle with his truck before driving across his gravel yard and hitting a post near the front door.
This clay molding process was known to preserve the form of soft animals in oxygen-poor areas, such as the muds at the bottom of lagoons and deep-sea trenches, Sereno says.
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Andrea Tamayo,
Scientific American,
23 Oct. 2025
Turbulence in Lake Nyos changes the color from clear blue to mud-brown or reddish from iron sediments.
The phenomenon, known as granular jamming, has long fascinated physicists who study how materials like sand and coffee grounds can switch from flowing freely to becoming rigid under pressure.
Among seismic sports television changes during the past 50 years, the NBA’s new media rights deal, one that officially begins this week, isn’t quite as earth-shaking as CBS losing the NFL to Fox in 1994 or ABC losing Monday Night Football in 2005.
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Barry Jackson
Updated October 21,
Miami Herald,
21 Oct. 2025
Similar to finding that planets do not orbit the earth, the search for economics anomalies requires searching for empirical facts that cannot (easily) be explained using the standard economic model where everyone chooses by optimizing and makes no systematic mistakes.
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