Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Carried by the wind, as sand.
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- adjective Alternative form of
windborne .
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Examples
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Many people in the U.S., China and Russia are reportedly stocking up on potassium iodide pills to protect themselves against any wind-borne radiation.
Radiation Levels In Japan Causing Concern in Other Countries 2011
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Residents in the communities outside the 20-kilometer safety radius from the Fukushima plant began phased relocations to a designated safe area because of health risks from wind-borne radiation seeping from the plant.
Japan: Partial Fuel Meltdown Occurred Within Hours of Disaster 2011
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The museum requested a design that can withstand a 200-year event, such as a direct hit from a category 5 hurricane, with 165 mph sustained winds, and missile impact from wind-borne debris and a 28 foot storm surge.
Jean Lin: PHOTOS: The New Salvador Dali Museum Opens In Florida Jean Lin 2011
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Many people in the U.S., China and Russia are reportedly stocking up on potassium iodide pills to protect themselves against any wind-borne radiation.
Radiation Levels In Japan Causing Concern in Other Countries 2011
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Residents in the communities outside the 20-kilometer safety radius from the Fukushima plant began phased relocations to a designated safe area because of health risks from wind-borne radiation seeping from the plant.
Japan: Partial Fuel Meltdown Occurred Within Hours of Disaster 2011
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The museum requested a design that can withstand a 200-year event, such as a direct hit from a category 5 hurricane, with 165 mph sustained winds, and missile impact from wind-borne debris and a 28 foot storm surge.
Jean Lin: PHOTOS: The New Salvador Dali Museum Opens In Florida Jean Lin 2011
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But actions spoke otherwise: Officials evacuated workers from the plant and expanded an exclusion zone around the dying reactors to 30 kilometers, helpfully advising homeowners trapped by wind-borne radioactivity to please keep the windows shut.
The Crisis in Japan: A Hunger for Information John Bussey 2011
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The museum requested a design that can withstand a 200-year event, such as a direct hit from a category 5 hurricane, with 165 mph sustained winds, and missile impact from wind-borne debris and a 28 foot storm surge.
Jean Lin: PHOTOS: The New Salvador DaliÃâàMuseum Opens In Florida Jean Lin 2011
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So if there was any significant wind-borne fallout from the Japan plant, it would likely get noticed quickly.
Scientists: Japan Fallout Won't Rival Chernobyl's Gautam Naik 2011
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Yet all we see are houses, rows and rows of houses as far as sight, and where sight vanishes into nothing, into the new world no one has seen, there has to be more than dust, wind-borne particles of burning earth, the earth we lost, and nothing else.
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