delta
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One example is delta waves, the slow and rolling electrical patterns commonly associated with deep sleep.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
It’s also referred to as the delta sleep-inducing peptide.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
For decades, so much water has been taken that the river seldom meets the sea in Mexico, and its delta, once filled with lush wetlands and forests, has shriveled to stretches of dry riverbed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Fishermen working the sea between the Irrawaddy delta and the coast of Mon state found several other bodies nine days later.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Down Cairo way? Yeah. It’s in the delta of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Like Cairo in Egypt, in the Nile delta.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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The world-renowned site features iron carbonate concretions that formed some 309 million years ago, fossilizing within them ancient creatures that had once thrived in the area's lush swamps, shallow seas and river deltas.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
In 18 of the 40 deltas, this downward movement, known as subsidence, already exceeds local sea-level rise.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
"Centimeters of sea level rise will greatly increase the risk of flooding in deltas," Lin said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
That means they are also imperiling some of the world’s most important food-producing lowlands in the Nile and Mekong deltas and cities from Shanghai to New York.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2025
In fifth-grade history we had spent a lot of time worrying about the flooded river deltas of the ancient world.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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