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Recent Examples of floodplain
What’s more, many homeowners are seeing the prices for their flood insurance rise as the NFIP adjusts its rates for existing floodplains using new climate models.
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Molly Taft, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
In other places, floodplains have been reconnected to rivers to provide more space for floodwaters to spread out.
—Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Rather, it must be elevated to the current floodplain (and updated to current building code standards) or demolished and replaced.
—Jeff Weiner, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Strata recorded several types of zones for the development, ranging from floodplains to moderate or steeply sloping areas.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 17 Feb. 2025
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Molly Taft, WIRED, 2 Oct. 2024
In other places, floodplains have been reconnected to rivers to provide more space for floodwaters to spread out.
—Jeff Opperman, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Rather, it must be elevated to the current floodplain (and updated to current building code standards) or demolished and replaced.
—Jeff Weiner, Axios, 21 Feb. 2025
Strata recorded several types of zones for the development, ranging from floodplains to moderate or steeply sloping areas.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for floodplain
Noun
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After each round of full-body exfoliation, a giant basin of warm water was dumped over my body, like I was being baptized.—
Anna Haines,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
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West Virginia sits atop the Marcellus Shale basin, which holds 141 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.—
Ken Silverstein,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Whereas mammoths preferred the cold, dry grasslands that spread as Ice Age glaciers expanded, Mammut preferred the warmer, wetter habitats of Pleistocene forests and thrived during the interglacial reprieves from the ice.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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The population of grassland birds in the U.S. has dropped by 43% since 1970, as row-crop production, drought and habitat loss take their toll, the report says.—
Sarah Metz,
CBS News,
13 Mar. 2025
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As was common all over the Florida Gulf Coast, the road nearby was lined with a canyon of refrigerators and cabinets and other household items ruined by the flood waters and left out by the curb for the city to haul away.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
9 Apr. 2025
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In January, thousands of portraits still at Adelaide were breathtakingly close to the Palisades Fire, which burned nearly all the homes on the other side of the canyon.—
Michael Slenske,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Apr. 2025
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From the prairie of Abilene, Texas, Crusoe plans to launch a hyperscale data center campus with 206 megawatts of capacity that’s expected to scale to 1.2 gigawatts by mid-2026.—
MacKenzie Sigalos,
CNBC,
25 Mar. 2025
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These and other prairie plants provide an ideal habitat for hundreds of pollinators and insect species including bunchgrass skippers and dreamy dusky wing butterflies.—
Susan DeGrane,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Mar. 2025
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But Healey controls taxpayer dollars where the rubber meets the road — or where our tires meet the potholes.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
10 Mar. 2025
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The big picture: Pennsylvania ranks 11th among states with the worst pothole problems, per a USA Today analysis Potholes are among the most complained about nuisances to Philly's 311 line.—
Isaac Avilucea,
Axios,
10 Mar. 2025
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Press releases from the attorneys general emphasize the gulch between the leaders, a microcosm of their significantly different approaches to running the agency.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
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From this elevation west across the deep gulch that existed was one of the toughest pulls of the entire trail.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
26 Jan. 2025
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But on the other hand, many more researchers looking at African savannas have found that elephants knock down lots of trees, converting forests into savannas and reducing carbon sequestration.—
Nitin Sekar,
ArsTechnica,
5 Apr. 2025
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Common to woodlands, scrublands, savanna and villages across most of East Africa, they can be found in small flocks, usually making a variety of noisy scolds and shrieks at anyone within earshot.—
Matt Kracht,
People.com,
11 Mar. 2025
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Baboons respond with sharp warning cries that echo through the ravine.—
Julia Eskins,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2025
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When camping in an open environment, select a campsite in a valley, ravine, or low region.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Mar. 2025
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“Floodplain.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/floodplain. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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