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- noun Plural form of
seepage .
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Examples
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The tar springs, or "seepages," indicate to the oil prospector where deposits of oil may possibly be found.
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The natural gas seepages may well be the result of different dynamics on Mars and Earth, but Mumma considers the comparable sizes to be significant.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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While some mannerisms are seepages from our own archive of odd behaviours or picked out from the world around us, sometimes they seem to just materialise on the page.
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A lot of the times the cardboard would stick, and overspray underspray little seepages.
Marina Cashdan: The Rebirth of Rob Pruitt Marina Cashdan 2010
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The company has been encouraged by hydrocarbon seepages in Greenland, but has yet to make a commercial discovery.
Cairn Abandons Two Greenland Wells Konstantin Rozhnov 2011
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The natural gas seepages may well be the result of different dynamics on Mars and Earth, but Mumma considers the comparable sizes to be significant.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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Admiral THAD ALLEN (U.S. Coast Guard): It is the collective opinion of the folks that are talking about this that the small seepages we are finding right now do not present, at least at this point, any indication that there is a threat to the wellbore.
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Confrontations continued over last weekend as tests showed possible seepages on the seabed, leading Adm. Allen on Sunday to issue a terse directive for BP to make preparations to let the oil start flowing to the surface again.
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I was up there on the dyke trying to plug this seepages or leaks.
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Admiral THAD ALLEN (U.S. Coast Guard): It is the collective opinion of the folks that are talking about this that the small seepages we are finding right now do not present, at least at this point, any indication that there is a threat to the wellbore.
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