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My vegetable garden resembled a cracked riverbed, the soil so hard that weeding was nearly impossible.
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Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
In a cave in southern Italy, archaeologists sifted through a muddy riverbed normally submerged by the turquoise waters of an underground river.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
At Tanque Verde Ranch, one of the country’s top dude ranches, riders can meander through desert washes (seasonally dry riverbeds), climb rocky hillsides, and experience the quiet solitude of the open desert.
—Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
In the usual Santa Ana storms, most of that flow streams out of the desert, through mountain passes and into the valleys along predictable pathways, like water coursing down riverbeds.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
In a cave in southern Italy, archaeologists sifted through a muddy riverbed normally submerged by the turquoise waters of an underground river.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
At Tanque Verde Ranch, one of the country’s top dude ranches, riders can meander through desert washes (seasonally dry riverbeds), climb rocky hillsides, and experience the quiet solitude of the open desert.
—Visit Tucson, AFAR Media, 21 Mar. 2025
In the usual Santa Ana storms, most of that flow streams out of the desert, through mountain passes and into the valleys along predictable pathways, like water coursing down riverbeds.
—Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Riverbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverbed. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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riverbed
noun
riv·er·bed
-ˌbed 
: the channel occupied or once occupied by a river
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