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lake

[layk] / leɪk /


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On 11 May, the sisters had visited an area of Birmingham close to where their mother had drowned in a lake a few years earlier.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The family wants to expand the lake, hold more water, do their bit to turn winter floods into summer irrigation.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Born Jan. 2, 1940, James Orsen Bakker was raised in Muskegon, a commercial ship port in Michigan just across the lake from Milwaukee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Every day Yvan Durig, owner and captain of the Lac des Brenets navigation company, measures the level of the remaining basin of water which is shrinking away at the very deepest bit of the lake.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

The van buoys like a boat on a stormy lake until we finally reach the spot.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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