tributary
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Last month a number of salmon died when white paint was spilled into the Burn of Carron, another tributary of the River Spey.
From BBC • May 3, 2026
Two weeks ago the government announced the suspension of dredging in the Tapajos River, a key Amazon River tributary, after Indigenous-led protests.
From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026
A wall currently separates the Nant Clydach tributary from the street, but the environment body, Natural Resources Wales, said building a raised flood defence wall was "not economically viable".
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
The tributary of the Potomac River cutting across the land was called Tiber Creek after the river that flowed through the Eternal City.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
However, with pictures far more detailed than any view of Mars that Lowell could have glimpsed, we have found not a tributary of the vaunted canal network, not one lock.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing tributary
Physical Geography - Introductory
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