troughs
Example Sentences
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In this analogy, troughs are associated with lower pressure and cooler, wetter weather, while ridges are linked to higher pressure and warmer, drier conditions — helping explain why cold snaps and warm spells often alternate.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026
Some rest over deep troughs or underwater mountains, while others lie across broad, flat plains.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026
Two dozen start-ups came to market in 2020-21, then cratered by three-quarters to troughs in 2023-24, Carter says.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
The resulting 1978 masterpiece—sublimely detailed and marvelously strange in its presentation of unseen ridges, troughs and endless plains—reflected the newly established theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Even children helped, filling buckets from wells and troughs in the nearby yards.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
