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dust devil

[duhst dev-uhl] / ˈdʌst ˌdɛv əl /


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Another dust devil was filmed travelling a short distance in a field in Wistow, between Cambridge and Peterborough.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024

The microphone picked up 308 dust pings as the dust devil whipped by, said Murdoch, who helped build it.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2022

The sound of the dust devil, published Tuesday to accompany a paper in the journal Nature Communications, is subtle.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022

“Maybe we’ll get a nice thick dust devil and we’ll have enough power to keep going for a while,” Daubar says.

From Scientific American • May 24, 2022

A dust devil twirled eastward from the sage across the flat deserted fields, catching tumbleweeds, bouncing them along and letting them go, weaving among the crumbled houses and rusty car hulks—a truly desolate scene.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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