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Recent Examples of waveletPipe those wavelets of foie gras feculence over to neighboring Surfside, a two-bathroom kind of town with waste pipes galore.—Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 June 2025 Its wavelets lap enticingly at our feet, but the breaker that might truly knock the breath out of us never comes.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025 For example, complex analysis is used to manipulate wavelets, or small oscillations in data.—William Ross, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2025 Does the little surge of Trump dances across sports represent a wave, or at least a wavelet, of athletes declaring their allegiances for the President-elect?—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2024 And importantly, the agency says, despite these wavelets of illness, severe outcomes like hospitalizations and deaths have been dropping since 2020 and 2021.—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024 Some of these gravity waves were caused by air flowing from the northwest over the Appalachians and Alleghenies, which caused downstream wavelets, like ripples downstream of stone in a river.—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023 Now a little rill of wavelets across the surface of the flood was the only thing that marked the river’s usual borders.—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023 The word has a natural lilt, a melody that builds to a pitch and gently subsides like a wavelet breaking on a Mediterranean shore.—Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
Now, after a year of bi-monthly root touch ups and gradual lightening, my hair remains healthy and curls are fully intact.
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Essence,
Essence,
19 June 2025
The 28 Days Later photocall in Paris on June 4 saw Taylor-Johnson wear his beard shaved much lower to his face, but the windy conditions of the day caused his curls to drift to-and-fro.
Iran and other countries in the region are among the world's top producers of oil, and any disruption could cause ripples throughout the world.
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Marin Scott,
NBC news,
13 June 2025
The ripples of all that potentially will extend to businesses across the region, companies KC2026 is urging to have in place plans to accommodate multiple languages, cultures and customs.
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