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Recent Examples of deposition
Eating vitamin D-rich foods can help improve calcium absorption in the gut and its deposition into bones.
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Emmanuella Ogbonna,
Health,
30 June 2026
Weakfall was always under scrutiny, Clapper would say in a 2025 deposition.
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Joaquin Sapien,
ProPublica,
30 June 2026
That’s come under scrutiny because Carroll didn’t initially disclose it during a 2022 deposition.
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Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
In the Brooklyn/Manhattan 10th Congressional District, Brad Lander campaigned with the energy of someone building a bold progressive movement, while Congressman Dan Goldman spoke far too much like a prosecutor conducting a deposition.
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Bradley Honan,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2026
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Emmanuella Ogbonna,
Health,
30 June 2026
Weakfall was always under scrutiny, Clapper would say in a 2025 deposition.
—
Joaquin Sapien,
ProPublica,
30 June 2026
That’s come under scrutiny because Carroll didn’t initially disclose it during a 2022 deposition.
—
Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
In the Brooklyn/Manhattan 10th Congressional District, Brad Lander campaigned with the energy of someone building a bold progressive movement, while Congressman Dan Goldman spoke far too much like a prosecutor conducting a deposition.
—
Bradley Honan,
New York Daily News,
28 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deposition
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At Walhalla Glades, the carbon instead sat within silicate-rich sediment.
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The results showed that even after weeks of biological growth and sediment buildup, which heavily obscured the test targets, the system successfully identified every single weapon.
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Democrats have also increased taxes on businesses, paid for programs out of other funds and suspended reserve deposits among other solutions.
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Charles Schwab Learn More Minimum deposit and balance Minimum deposit and balance requirements may vary depending on the investment vehicle selected.
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The valley floor is silt and loess left by the ice-age Missoula Floods, the glacial-lake megafloods that repeatedly drowned the region.
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The Hansen Dam Aquatic Center pool was constructed in 1999 in a $15-million project to replace a previous pool in the area that was filled with silt.
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“Deposition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deposition. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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