delta
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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
The strategy to carry customers over the delta between Play-Doh for kids and Play-Doh for adults starts with the new Blooms brand name.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
All rigging whole and all hands well, we rested, letting the wind and steersmen work the ships, for five days; on the fifth we made the delta.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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
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
They focus specifically on urbanising river deltas, which are of great social and economic importance and highly vulnerable to climate change.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2024
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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