dams
- present tense form of dam (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Tahnoon wanted approval for a mountain of additional chips to build one of the world’s largest AI data center clusters, requiring the equivalent of more than two Hoover Dams of power.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026
Dams provide a ready-made case study for investigating the contributions of these two mechanisms, since the structures trap sediment but scarcely affect vegetation.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
Dams and large-scale water diversion activities are very detrimental to a water system because they change everything … the water temperature changes and the pulses of flood water disappear, which are super important.
From National Geographic • Dec. 20, 2023
The Akosombo and Kpong Dams generate about a third of Ghana's energy mix.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2023
Dams were built, turning narrow trickles into wide ponds.
From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown
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