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creek

[kreek, krik] / krik, krɪk /


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The community offered access to a lake and creek, along with equestrian facilities and a shared lodge.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

“I started on my grandpa’s back, just floating down the creek with a life jacket on,” he told me during a recent phone interview from the Red Rock prison.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

He fears the project will silt up the creek and Flathead Lake and destroy fish and habitat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

While recording in a park one evening, Jack picks up the sound of a car tire exploding before he sees the vehicle careen off the road and into a creek.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

The gentle sounds of water cascading from the fountain reminded me of the creek that ran behind our cabin in the cotton labor camp in Corcoran.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

The sizable farm was previously described as being home to an abundance of wildlife—and multiple trails and two year-round creeks run through the land.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Over the last several years, work crews there have been restoring natural floodplains along rivers and creeks, building recharge basins, and routing floodwater to farm fields where it can soak into the land.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

There could be “life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses,” the agency said in the warning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Their preferred rivers and creeks had gone dry from a record drought.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

The car moved deeper into the Georgia countryside, prayer breaking out of the windows in wavering harmonics spilling into the ditches and moccasin strung creeks of the pine counties outside of Atlanta.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy


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