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Examples
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Last season, we traced the trough's path along the northern end of the eastern side of the building in units 588 and 589.
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Gudin sat on the water trough's edge and flapped a hand at a persistent fly.
Sharpe's Tiger Cornwell, Bernard 1997
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Parabolic troughs track the sun along one axis, concentrating the energy onto a receiver tube located at the trough's focal line.
3. Solar-thermal 1994
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The parabolic dish's concentration ratios are considerably higher than the trough's.
3. Solar-thermal 1994
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I tell you, Hapgood, the trough's ahead; we're steering for it; and it's rapid and perilous sundering of the classes.
If Winter Comes 1925
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The horses that had barely put their muzzles into the trough's reared and capered; but, as soon as the Band broke, which it did when the ghost of the Drum-Horse was about a furlong distant, all hooves followed suit, and the clatter of the stampede -- quite different from the orderly throb and roar of a movement on parade, or the rough horse-play of watering in camp -- made them only more terrified.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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From the thin peaked nose upwards it was the face of a son of the gods who knew his parentage and birthright; but downward that of a human swine who loved the foulness of the trough for the trough's sake.
The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896
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Space is where we will find answers to food and water shortages and medical break trough's.
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Intellectual slave, give us your keen insight to the trough's cost-cutting in Joplin.
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Fisheries biologist Jeff Cordell points to tiny organisms digging in the trough's pebbles.
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