basin
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The province encompasses several well-known subglacial features, including the Wilkes and Aurora basins, as well as the basin containing Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake on Earth.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
Widespread smoke impacts are expected in the L.A. basin, on Catalina Island and the Coachella Valley, too.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
Lakes Mead and Powell, the biggest reservoirs in the basin, have fallen about 75% from peak volumes.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The Lake Chad basin is a huge region of waterways and swampland shared by Nigeria, Chad, Niger and Cameroon.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Olanna hushed her and bathed her in a small basin and glanced at the clock and worried that the wet nurse, a large woman that Ugwu’s aunty had found, would be late.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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