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dried-up

[drahyd-uhp] / ˈdraɪdˈʌp /














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Running a big food company these days is like fishing in a dried-up pond.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Ailton Krenak, from Brazil, talked of rivers that that had been "erased by money" and seeing the dried-up, polluted waterways was like a much-loved "grandfather in a coma".

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

She cited a decline in advertising, dried-up investment reserves, digital monetization issues “and overall cost increases that have not kept pace with revenue.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

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

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

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