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  Waters

  noun

  Ethel, 1896–1977, U.S. singer and actress.
• waters
  waters

  plural noun

  any body of sea, or seas regarded as sharing some common quality

Waters

American  

[waw-terz, wot-erz] / ˈwɔ tərz, ˈwɒt ərz /

noun

1. Ethel, 1896–1977, U.S. singer and actress.

2. Muddy McKinley Morganfield, 1915–83, U.S. blues singer and musician.

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waters ¹ British  

plural noun

1. any body of sea, or seas regarded as sharing some common quality

   Irish territorial waters

   uncharted tropical waters

2. physiol (sometimes singular) the amniotic fluid surrounding the fetus in the womb

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Waters ² British  

/ ˈwɔːtəz /

noun

1. Muddy, real name McKinley Morganfield. 1915–83, US blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His songs include "Rollin' Stone" (1948) and "Got my Mojo Working" (1954)

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McCaslin asked lead prosecutor Creighton Waters and lead defense lawyer Dick Harpootlian to compare notes on any mutually agreeable potential sites before a second hearing, which she set for Aug. 14.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Waters, who said the tough conversations were no small feat, called the collaboration “the beginning of a renewed effort to tackle our housing affordability crisis.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

As to your question about trusts, Waters Sullivan, a Birmingham, Ala.-based law firm, notes the difference between irrevocable trusts and revocable trusts.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

Jamie Waters is a features editor and writer for The Wall Street Journal in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

“Your boy Waters and I corresponded a bit, and in his last—” “Wait, you read your fan mail now?”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

Here he reduces a passage of Genesis to read: “Darkness upon the deep waters / In the midst of evening / Let the Sea bring forth / the stars.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

They have been documented engaging in "wave washing" -- cooperating to create choppy waters that knock seals off sheets of ice so they can be more easily captured and eaten.

From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026

Most vessels are now using channels approved by Iran “or other clandestine routes, while traffic through the Omani waters has effectively dried up,” they wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

Ghana is Africa's leading gold producer, but a large portion of the country's waters and environment have been polluted by illegal mining, known as locally as "galamsey".

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

The tireless robot continued north, on and on, toward the waters where the Ancient Shark roamed.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

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