refill

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These findings support a broader model explaining how magma reservoirs beneath caldera volcanoes refill over time.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

Five years ago, state forecasters badly missed their runoff predictions — overestimating the snowmelt expected to refill reservoirs by up to 68%.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

In Hammanskraal, a couple of car washers are filling up at a public tap while in the background, tankers refill.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

In sealing the names of the dead within them, the yizkor books refill that emptiness with the promise of memory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

They stayed in port there only briefly, long enough to refill a waterskin, and to buy a tar-smeared sailcloth to protect some of their gear in the undecked boat from seawater and rain.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin