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swimming pool

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Recent Examples of swimming pool The Israeli film, set in 1987, centers on a 12-year-old boy, Boaz, played by Yair Mazor, who, while preparing for his bar mitzvah, is shocked to witness his father (Assi Cohen) having sex in a swimming pool locker room. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026 Those plans included a garage, pedestrian access to the nearby Trinity Trails, a swimming pool, a pickleball court and penthouses. — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026 Its sunken gardens and swimming pool promised comfort, while a blast door, escape hatches and air filtration protected against nuclear fallout. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 One of the bars was painted blue to match pieces of the old swimming pool uncovered beneath the parking lot. — Harry Bruinius, Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for swimming pool

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Noun

Lower courts had dismissed the case because Asian American students were not underrepresented at the magnet schools compared with the pool of students that applied.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2026
As adoption widens, so does the pool of users for whom this is genuinely risky.

— Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of pool

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Melanie Lawrence, a 68-year-old independent, worries about wells going dry in her area near Willcox, where the groundwater grew so depleted that the land started to crack.

— Hannah Knowles The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
The Endurance Energy team proceeded to case and cement the second hole before installing a valve to create a well.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of well

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Their defense had surrendered 83 points in consecutive blowout losses to Missouri and South Carolina, and the optimism surrounding new coach Jon Sumrall had evaporated faster than a puddle on a Gainesville sidewalk in August.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026
Grass, uneven ground, tiny puddles, and random objects can become major obstacles when the machine is barely taller than them.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of puddle

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Even during historically warm winters, intense cold snaps, lake-effect bursts, and major individual snowstorms remain entirely possible.

— Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
Inside, the interiors are a study in understated neutrals—warm gray,brown tones, and crisp white walls allow the marble fireplace and expansive lake views to serve as the art pieces.

— Madeline Weinfield, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of lake

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One of the reasons the water hole has been so favored is because radio waves in this frequency range are not absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026
There were about 50 of them and they were strung out over a wide, grassy plain near a water hole.

— Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026

Definition of water hole

Noun

The South Portico faces the pond known as the Columbia Basin in Jackson Park, but has not been a way in or out at any point since the building has been the Museum of Science and Industry — which will celebrate its centennial in 2033.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Regularly maintaining our city’s creeks and pond depths should be done.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of pond

Noun

Sonia Namarnyilk layered three stencils to print complex patterns of mermaid-like water spirits, their fluid, bright orange undulations interspersed with playful turtles and rippling billabong plants.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022
The plants and creatures were fossilized when iron-rich groundwater drained into a billabong, or water hole.

— Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022

Definition of billabong

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