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shallow

[shal-oh] / ˈʃæl oʊ /




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Companies pivoted to shallow reservoirs, which now absorb roughly three-quarters of the billions of barrels of water that they inject in the Permian every year.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Water from upstream communities can move quickly through channels with little warning. What may look shallow or calm can suddenly become fast-moving and dangerous," the agency warned in a post on X.

From Barron's

A shallow 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Taiwan on Wednesday evening, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

From Barron's

What little water is left in the marina is shallow, not enough to float a boat.

From BBC

She says when we read reviews online, we succumb to what psychologists call “shallow thinking”—that is, we aren’t considering the biases of those who write online reviews.

From The Wall Street Journal