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watershed

[waw-ter-shed, wot-er-] / ˈwɔ tərˌʃɛd, ˈwɒt ər- /


NOUN
drainage basin
Synonyms
NOUN
landmark
Synonyms


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Google's water assessment for Visakhapatnam "pointed to pressure on the local watershed", Smith said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

It was a watershed moment, even for those who don’t know the first thing about fianchetti.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

That it’s taken this long to reach what could be a watershed moment speaks volumes about how every passing day furthers humanity’s desensitization.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

For a short time in the summer of 2023, it seemed as if Haim's under-20 side might offer a watershed moment of unity and co-existence.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Thereafter, except for a narrow band sprayed in 1956, the whole upper watershed of this branch was excluded from the spraying program.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Addressing common criticisms, he pledged to keep electricity prices low by building its own energy-generating infrastructure wherever Meta invests and to restore more water than it uses in the watersheds it operates by 2030.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

When exploring the watersheds east of Cuzco, Peru, he writes, Miller was “overawed by the tropical forest canopy stretching to infinity before him.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

“It’s kind of a startlingly bad picture where virtually all major western watersheds are doing very poorly,” Swain said in a livestreamed discussion of the western snow outlook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Of these, 16 formed interconnected watersheds covering at least 100,000 square kilometers.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025

Such places, the watersheds of the great coniferous forests of spruce and balsam, of hemlock and pine, provide the kind of spawning grounds that salmon must have in order to survive.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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