turbidity

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Recent Examples of turbidity To create a complete system, the buoy is equipped with sensors for temperature, turbidity, chlorophyll, and oxygen levels. New Atlas, 30 June 2026 The South Florida Sun Sentinel reached out to the county for comment about the plume size, turbidity and distance travel. Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026 The study suggests that persistent turbidity plumes created by coastal modification projects may interfere with shark prey capture and could increase the likelihood of unintended human interactions. Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Cordell from Yuba Water Agency said initial field checks near the incident showed high turbidity, or cloudy water, and that other water quality samples have been sent to a lab for analysis. Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 18 Feb. 2026 Years later, those breaks were used to confirm the existence of underwater landslides known as turbidity currents. PC Magazine, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for turbidity
Noun
  • Oven cleaners are not safe for glass doors and can cause permanent damage like cloudiness or chemical etching.
    Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 4 July 2026
  • Those extra ingredients don’t evaporate quickly on glass and can leave frustrating streaks, cloudiness, and smudges behind.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • That opacity is another part of the appeal, corporate political consultants said.
    Luke Fountain, CNBC, 3 July 2026
  • The Federal Reserve is reversing a generation-long trend toward transparency, shifting back to strategic opacity under new Chair Kevin Warsh.
    Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Scientific consensus is that this opaqueness is caused by hazy banks of clouds that are masking the atmospheres, but what kind of aerosol particles are in the clouds?
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 June 2026
  • International humanitarian law mandates the principles of distinction, proportionality, and necessity, but the opaqueness of drone operations, particularly outside active battlefields, challenges these principles.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 8 May 2026

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“Turbidity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/turbidity. Accessed 11 Jul. 2026.

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