troughs

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Horses and livestock need their troughs filled daily, forecasters said, as consumption can double in the heat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

Some rest over deep troughs or underwater mountains, while others lie across broad, flat plains.

From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2026

But its shape, though haunting, is also oddly inviting, bringing to mind stone troughs and thirsty animals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

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

During the fall and winter the salmon eggs, large and thick- shelled, lay in shallow gravel-filled troughs, or redds, which the mother fish had dug in the stream bottom.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson