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Recent Examples of weir
Removing the weir will lower the entire lagoon’s water level by several feet and restore the ebb and flow of ocean tides to the basin.
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Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
Known as Big John, the man was fined and forced to dismantle his traditional fish weir or risk imprisonment after he was reported for fishing outside of the reservation.
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Aubrey Violeta Gelpieryn,
CBS News,
30 May 2026
The strong but flexible roots of the Siberian pine, woven into a weir, bound them to a single place.
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Literary Hub,
26 Jan. 2026
The grid hooked up 14 existing dams and weirs as well as a new desalination plant and three advanced wastewater-treatment plants.
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IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2010
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Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2026
Known as Big John, the man was fined and forced to dismantle his traditional fish weir or risk imprisonment after he was reported for fishing outside of the reservation.
—
Aubrey Violeta Gelpieryn,
CBS News,
30 May 2026
The strong but flexible roots of the Siberian pine, woven into a weir, bound them to a single place.
—
Literary Hub,
26 Jan. 2026
The grid hooked up 14 existing dams and weirs as well as a new desalination plant and three advanced wastewater-treatment plants.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
28 May 2010
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weir
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Dam Removal Europe found that the number of dams dismantled in 2025, along with other water-flow controls like weirs, culverts and sluices, grew by 11% from the year before.
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The archways are furnished with sluice gates that can open to allow excess water to pass through in periods of flooding.
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Gibson retires the first two batters before giving up a single to Paul Goldschmidt, followed by the homer barrage.
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Beneath its gleeful barrage of kink, karaoke, and absurdist comedy lies a sharp satire of exclusion, identity, and liberation within contemporary Queer culture.
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The laminate reinforces the glass to create a shatter-resistant barrier, preventing shards of glass from flying out during extreme weather.
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Staffers wheeled the barriers over from the adjacent University of Washington baseball complex.
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Public swimming has been available for years in a canal in northeastern Paris during summer.
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As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, the museum offers a patriotic lens into how the canals, highways, railroads and mines that stitched this country together were built by machines born in American factories.
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“Weir.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weir. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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