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Recent Examples of weir
The flood bypass in Yolo and Solano counties diverts floodwaters from the Sacramento River away from the capital city and neighboring communities through a series of weirs.
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2025
The map shows existing water barriers in the Valencia area, including dams and weirs, not structures that have been removed, Carlos Garcia De Leaniz, the AMBER project principal investigator and aquatic biosciences professor at Swansea University, told USA TODAY.
—Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
The city controls several weirs where water is diverted.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Many of the state’s wildlife officials got their start working on a weir.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 6 Feb. 2025
The map shows existing water barriers in the Valencia area, including dams and weirs, not structures that have been removed, Carlos Garcia De Leaniz, the AMBER project principal investigator and aquatic biosciences professor at Swansea University, told USA TODAY.
—Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
The city controls several weirs where water is diverted.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
Many of the state’s wildlife officials got their start working on a weir.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weir
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Eventually, the animals were clustered into a sluice-like enclosure, and then the animals would be extracted one by one.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
9 Dec. 2025
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Charlie got into the shower, letting the hot water sluice off the rest of the blood on her back and whatever had dried in her hair.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
19 Sep. 2025
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Eleven years ago, Tom Brady was buried on the same field under a barrage of sacks, hits and hurries in an upset that sprung the Broncos to the Super Bowl.—
Andrew Callahan,
Hartford Courant,
26 Jan. 2026
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The scandal erupted at the end of last year when the AI chatbot churned out a barrage of digitally undressed images of women and children in response to requests from users.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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Reframing Negotiation as Collaboration Perhaps the biggest mental barrier is viewing negotiation as conflict.—
Kwame Christian Esq,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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For all the progress in the lab, though, money remains a major barrier.—
Ana Castelain,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Broward County Sheriff's Office later found his body inside his vehicle in a nearby canal.—
Abby Dodge,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Rainfall, irrigation and drainage can transport phosphorus – either dissolved in water or attached to eroded soil particles – into nearby canals, streams, rivers and lakes.—
Dinesh Phuyal,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Weir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weir. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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