troughs
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“Convoluted Line A” and “Convoluted Line B” are metal troughs set into a raised concrete platform, their winding forms charting a course that visitors must circumvent.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
What the pair found was a desert highway that rolls up and down, like an asphalt serpent, with deadly blind peaks and treacherous hidden troughs.
From Barron's • Mar. 8, 2026
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
He also feeds them a mixture of corn, toasted soybeans, and kelp, which we scooped into long troughs in their pens.
From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan
