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Boulder Canyon

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noun

  1. a canyon of the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, above Boulder Dam.


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Utz Brands, for example, offers its Boulder Canyon line of salty snacks made with avocado oil or olive oil rather than traditional seed oils.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 7, 2026

The court limited California to the 4.4 million acre-feet written into the Boulder Canyon Project Act, which had authorized the building of Hoover Dam, and guaranteed Arizona 2.8 million acre-feet a year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

“One of the things we saw going on in the market was that carbs weren’t cool anymore,” said Steve Sklar, senior vice president and general manager of Boulder Canyon.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2016

Its walls stretch 1,200 feet across the Boulder Canyon, are 726 feet high and 660 feet thick.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 16, 2015

The passage between is known as Boulder Canyon.

From Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb

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