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Recent Examples of floodplain
That category of states requires disclosing floodplain status but doesn't require disclosing whether the property must have flood insurance.
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Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2025
This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.
—Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
Scars on the trunks of floodplain trees where other wood in the swiftly flowing water smacked into the tree trunk with enough force to damage the bark or even shear off the living tree.
—Ellen Wohl
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Steubing, of the floodplain association, said early indications suggested that the flooding that occurred on July 4 was an event that could be expected once in 800 years, but more work is needed and several engineering firms continue to evaluate the flood’s extent.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
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Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 27 Aug. 2025
This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line.
—Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
Scars on the trunks of floodplain trees where other wood in the swiftly flowing water smacked into the tree trunk with enough force to damage the bark or even shear off the living tree.
—Ellen Wohl
august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
Steubing, of the floodplain association, said early indications suggested that the flooding that occurred on July 4 was an event that could be expected once in 800 years, but more work is needed and several engineering firms continue to evaluate the flood’s extent.
—Evan Bush, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
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So far, Casalinuovo’s banjo catfish have been found at four sites in the Bermejo River basin of northwestern Argentina, near the borders with Bolivia and Chile.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, there were no tropical storms or hurricanes in the Atlantic basin on that date this year, AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva told Newsweek.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, or Roadless Rule, prohibits the new construction of roads and timber harvesting on nearly 45 million acres of national forests and grasslands.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Their preferred habitats likely included open grasslands, forest edges and floodplains.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Sure, there are some spots that are vulnerable to cheap homers, but the middle third of the field is a canyon, and all other types of base hits are suppressed there.—
Tony Blengino,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The canyon between Laura and the couple remains vast after Laura told Cherry in Episode 3 that Daniel died after his rock-climbing accident just to get Cherry out of their lives.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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On the Cougars’ second possession, Weigman broke one tackle and found nothing but Texas prairie in front of him for a 49-yard gain.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
13 Sep. 2025
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Adding a 2,800-square-foot prairie meadow along the eastern border of the dog park to provide natural habitat for birds and pollinators, and offer noise buffering.—
Gillian Stawiszynski,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Sep. 2025
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For cruising around town while keeping tabs on the surrounding potholes, traffic and pedestrians, however, many cyclists prefer the more commanding, upright, back-friendly stance offered by a flat handlebar.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Sep. 2025
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Under Mahan’s tenure, the city’s vehicles have been outfitted with pothole-detecting cameras and its employees use AI to win multimillion-dollar grants.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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There were more creeks, high hills, big parks, passes, and open mountainsides with broken, timbered canyons and gulches.—
Fred C. Mercer,
Outdoor Life,
14 Aug. 2025
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Mandatory evacuations were active along the Colorado 13 corridor from the White River near Meeker to south of Piceance Creek Road in Garfield County, parts of Rio Blanco County east of Willow Creek and south of Piceance Creek, and gulches west of Colorado 13.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
10 Aug. 2025
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images An insurgency was launched by Boko Haram in 2009 to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel (the semi-arid transitional zone between the Sahara and savannas), with several other terrorist groups also active in the region.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Most travelers associate the Great Migration with East Africa’s Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in Tanzania and Kenya, where millions of blue wildebeest—African antelopes also called gnus—thunder across the savanna each year.—
Mazuba Kapambwe,
AFAR Media,
10 Sep. 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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If no alternative exists, set up camp in a valley, ravine, or other low-lying areas.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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