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Recent Examples of wadi
New geophysical surveys and coring of the wadi would shed more light on the hydrological aspects of the area, while other surveys might reveal where the eastward tunnels of the pyramid lead.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
The building was built in a wadi.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
The wadi stretched outside the window.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that.
—Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
—Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi.
—Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2024
The building was built in a wadi.
—CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
The wadi stretched outside the window.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2021
The fresh air, the space while clambering over rocks in a wadi, or valley, and the austere style of the Bear Grylls camp appears for now to offer the opposite of that.
—Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Another of Bogaczewicz’s photographs captures a Saudi family having a picnic under a highway overpass, much as their bedouin ancestors might have stopped their caravansary by a desert wadi to have a meal.
—Wired, 26 Nov. 2019
Laughter of couples crossing the lawn, sinking into the darkness of the wadi.
—Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wadi
Noun
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Long drives over deep gullies and big ponds come often, and accuracy is always in play.—
Moira McCarthy,
Boston Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Key Points Providence Canyon State Park in Georgia features colorful, 150-foot gullies.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Officials said Sturluson, 23 – who was experiencing homelessness – was shot May 1 after asking the teen and Curtis to stop firing into a arroyo, or dry creek, that was close by.—
Sara Schilling,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2025
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And while our street was close enough to the national forest that bears and bobcats were not uncommon sights, it was also separated from it by a dry arroyo and five blocks of houses in between.—
Josh Eells,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ultimately, some in the Hollywood trenches see the reaction to Tilly as overblown.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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The resulting microplastics are so widespread, they’re found in places as remote as ocean trenches and as close as human breast milk.—
Matt Fuchs,
Time,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The couple had come up from their Sun City home in metro Phoenix in spring to shuttle rim-to-rim canyon hikers to their vehicles, hoping to escape the summer heat like many of their clients.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
5 Oct. 2025
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Try the roughly two-mile Hickman Bridge Trail to admire the canyon and walk beneath the 300-foot Hickman Bridge, a natural sandstone arch.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Unlike most of the relatively flat Dakota prairie, the Missouri breaks that make up much of Sutton Bay’s landscape create an assortment of coulees with cattail bottoms, perfect lairs to hide the shifty late-season pheasants.—
Chris Dorsey,
Forbes,
9 Dec. 2024
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Atop that mesa, hidden in a sandstone coulee, our campfire burned a hole in the darkness.—
Outdoor Life,
Outdoor Life,
6 Nov. 2020
Noun
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Of course, Tom finds him first and inanely yells his name across the ravine.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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From the top of a lift, the three of us descended 4,800 feet into a ravine that, over the course of two hours, funneled us to Refugio Frey.—
Scott Yorko,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Trey Moore is a local paddler who knows just about every corner of the Nolichucky gorge.—
Rolando Arrieta,
NPR,
29 Sep. 2025
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It was imported from the neighboring island in its entirety and features open sides that allow for spectacular vistas of the river gorge under the stunning morning light.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Until a few years ago, much of the city’s sewage was released untreated into the Ganges via public drains, or nullahs, which discharged along the same bank as the ghats, where people habitually bathe.—
Oliver Franklin-Wallis,
WIRED,
30 Nov. 2023
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The project involves the diversion of a nullah which is a lifeline for the area.—
Manish Chandra Mishra,
Quartz,
10 June 2021
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“Wadi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wadi. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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