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as in canal
a passageway for water
A fallen tree branch was floating down the river.
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as in stream
an overwhelming flow or rush of something
Jet streams can be thought of as giant rivers of air that circulate around the globe. He was overwhelmed by the river of new information that the document dump provided.
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Recent Examples of river
The bottom line: In tech's social media era, the industry built vast global networks that transmuted our posts and clicks into rivers of profit by monetizing users' personal information.
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Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
Abby’s jeans and jacket and Libby’s T-shirt were later discovered in the nearby river, according to WRTV.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
During the drive, the bus lost control, veered off a hilly road and fell into a river about 200 feet below the road, senior state official Deepak Rawat told the AP.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
In Tecumseh, a rural area southeast of Oklahoma, the Little River was more than 4 feet past its flood stage early Monday, threatening to damage croplands, pastures and roads along the river downstream of the U.S. Highway 177 bridge crossing.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Nov. 2024
Abby’s jeans and jacket and Libby’s T-shirt were later discovered in the nearby river, according to WRTV.
—Zoe Sottile, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
During the drive, the bus lost control, veered off a hilly road and fell into a river about 200 feet below the road, senior state official Deepak Rawat told the AP.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
In Tecumseh, a rural area southeast of Oklahoma, the Little River was more than 4 feet past its flood stage early Monday, threatening to damage croplands, pastures and roads along the river downstream of the U.S. Highway 177 bridge crossing.
—Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for river
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Aim the cup toward the back of your vaginal canal and at a slight upward angle.Wendy Wisner, Health, 1 Nov. 2024
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Chinese border personnel took over a Nepali irrigation canal fed by the Karnali River, the report said, although the Chinese retreated when the Nepali mission visited.New York Times, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2024
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By 1958, part of the stream in Elm Grove was developed over, and routed into a concrete culvert, which no longer absorbed the water as the wetland did.Bridget Fogarty, Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2024
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Otherwise, you’ll likely be inundated with an endless stream of texts from the family group chat and notifications from social-media platforms.Angela Haupt, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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Vance orders his team—including Torres in a snazzy suit and tie, all his buttons buttoned—to get out there and save his woman, thereby keeping the Caribbean waterways safe for everyone except diamond smugglers.EW.com, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Many carried bottles containing murky, brown water, a reference to the polluting of rivers and waterways in the country.Zinhle Essamuah, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Questions about the state’s rehab capacity also remain, if Proposition 36 works as intended and adds a flood of people into the treatment pipeline.Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
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The risks are piling up, from a flood of low-quality content and MFA (made-for-advertising) websites to fake celebrities and AI-generated deepfakes that cost one business $25 million in losses.Ivan Guzenko, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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Steaming rivulets of milky turquoise water flowed in channels beside the roadway.Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
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In some places, the rivulets had merged to form streams that had to be jumped across.Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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Whether these sweeping changes will be enough to turn the tide remains a point of debate among experts.Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
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The tide may finally begin to turn for shares of Snap , according to JMP Securities.Samantha Subin, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024
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“River.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/river. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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