ridge
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A high pressure ridge should move across on Friday and Saturday, giving mostly dry weather with any showers largely confined to the far western and northern UK.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Carn said a dramatic escalation appears unlikely because the eruption is associated with a volcanic ridge near the intersection of a transform fault and a back arc spreading center.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
It’s blended with an almost unreasonable amount of lemon zest and juice before coating every ridge of cavatappi.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
At least four Israeli soldiers were killed during last week’s advance on Ali al-Taher ridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
On their farm up on the ridge, Piggy Ellis and his sisters stuck their tongues out at me when I asked about a Wonder.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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How did trucks and tourists and Californians manage the uphills and downhills among inclines and ridges that could be windy or icy or foggy, sometimes all at once?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
The facade has vertical ridges running down the side, which Diamond said was inspired by the ribs of Saguaro cactuses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Wrinkle structures are small ridges and depressions that can form when microbial communities grow into mats across sandy sediment.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
The oblong ugly vegetable with lizard-like ridges is dark green, holding secrets, grows on thin vines.
From Salon ● May 9, 2026
Above us, on the ridges, trees are exploding uncontrollably.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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Mention French onion dip and most people immediately picture a ridged potato chip.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
For about $70, a plastic surgeon injected the ridged cartilage of her ears with a hyaluronic-acid filler that caused her ears to perk up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Some placentas have evolved to be disklike, some are leaf-shaped, some ring-shaped, heart-shaped; some are ridged, branched, labyrinthine, or weblike.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
The sponge pulls this off via its spiral, ridged outer surface that functions like a spiral staircase.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
Ten minutes in the swells and sailors were bending over and regurgitating the beef stew and instant mashed potatoes of that evening’s dinner onto the ridged metal floor.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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“These unusually strong ridging or troughing patterns will set up in different areas of the world and we just happen to be directly under it here,” Wheeler said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024
Applying a clustering technique to the 124 largest outbreaks, he found four patterns — and in all, there was mid-tropospheric high-pressure ridging centered over different portions of western North America.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
The researchers found that there’s an increased risk of combined ozone and particulate matter pollution during atmospheric ridging events.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 6, 2022
The frequency of these ridging patterns has increased significantly since 2000, according to the new research.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2022
All specimens of convexus are paler, the skulls are more convex dorsally and narrower, with less ridging and angularity.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
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