Definitions
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- noun a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river
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Examples
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Let us set out on a journey from Timbuktu, and let us go first eastwards to the singular Lake Chad, which is half filled with islands, is shallow and swampy, choked with reeds, rises and falls with the discharge of the great rivers which flow into it, and has a certain similarity to Lop-nor in Central Asia.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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Three-quarters of sub-Saharan Africa is arid or desert, and water resources such as Lake Chad are disappearing.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Three-quarters of sub-Saharan Africa is arid or desert, and water resources such as Lake Chad are disappearing.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Three-quarters of sub-Saharan Africa is arid or desert, and water resources such as Lake Chad are disappearing.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Three-quarters of sub-Saharan Africa is arid or desert, and water resources such as Lake Chad are disappearing.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Three-quarters of sub-Saharan Africa is arid or desert, and water resources such as Lake Chad are disappearing.
latimes.com - News 2010
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, Lake Chad, formerly one of Africa's largest freshwater sources, is shrinking to 5% of its original volume.
Jonathan Powers: Why Is Retired Republican Senator John Warner Worried About Climate Change? 2009
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For example, in the film Gore suggests that the drying of Lake Chad, the loss of Mount Kilimanjaro's snows and Hurricane Katrina may well have been caused by climate change.
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Lake Chad, once viewed by astronauts from space, no longer appears in their windows, shrinking some 95 percent since 1960.
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He became a city-room legend ... while covering the Free French forces on their march up from Lake Chad to a rendezvous at Tripoli with British troops for a westward push into Tunisia.
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