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Had the river been left to its own devices, a super-wet spring like that of 2011 would have sent the Mississippi and its distributaries surging over their banks.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 25, 2019

Every 1,000 years or so, it abandoned its main channel for one of its distributaries.

From Economist • Aug. 24, 2017

During flood stages when rivers have lots of water available, it develops distributaries that are separated by sand bars and sand ridges.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The Mississippi River delta is a river-dominated delta, shaped by levees along the river and its distributaries that confine the flow forming a shape called a bird-foot delta.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

The river is thus building a highly compound delta, composed of the secondary deltas formed at the mouth of each of its distributaries.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)