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dried-up

[drahyd-uhp] / ˈdraɪdˈʌp /














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In a dried-up riverbed, there’s a rock with a freshly drilled hole in it—the handiwork of NASA’s Perseverance rover, which touched down in Jezero Crater in 2021.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

At 112-5, England were in danger of being overwhelmed on a pitch that resembled a dried-up riverbed.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024

Ingenuity remains in contact with its companion, the Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up river bed for signs of extinct Martian life.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

Now he walks across the dried-up lake bed.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2023

There was nothing on the back porch but a metal watering can and piles of dried-up leaves that had been pushed into a corner.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool




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