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Meanings of dead zones in English

Spanish
glklujhl;

Low-oxygen areas in oceans and large lakes caused by nutrient and fertilizer pollution.

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        Examples for "dead zone"
        Examples for "dead zone"
        1
        I feel like I'm in an information dead zone in this motel.
        Money to burn: a novel of suspense
        2
        In common with London's posher clubs, Tuesdays there were a dead zone.
        The Guardian
        3
        Knowing the refrigerator was a dead zone, I went to the pantry.
        Bones of the Lost
        4
        The federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released the dead zone data Tuesday.
        Wired
        5
        Why, by posting sentries and lighting the dead zone, of course.
        Under the dome: a novel
        Usage of dead zones in English
        1
        It's hypoxia and nutrients in our system that are creating dead zones.
        Reuters
        2
        The result: dead zones off the coasts of countries that use the fertilizers.
        Wired
        3
        Nitrogen in agricultural run-off can feed algae blooms that create coastal dead zones.
        Reuters
        4
        Radars have dead zones which are low and also which are far away.
        The Guardian
        5
        And the waste collected by modern industrial animal farming contributes to ocean dead zones.
        The Guardian
        6
        To see dead zones in Google Earth or Google Maps, visit Robert Diaz' website.
        Wired
        7
        Oxygen-starved ocean dead zones may be more widespread than thought.
        Wired
        8
        They redeployed 250 staff from their dead zones to supermarkets, but to little avail.
        News.com.au
        9
        It sluices into rivers and the sea, creating dead zones sometimes hundreds of miles wide.
        The Guardian
        10
        Crystalline lagoons turn to sulfurous mudholes; estuaries of eutrophic rivers balloon into gigantic dead zones.
        The world without us
        11
        So, how do you prevent the quiet zones in your house from becoming dead zones?
        The Irish Times
        12
        It is the march of deserts and the waxing of dead zones in the oceans.
        The Guardian
        13
        The beam crawled over tree trunks and was sucked into dead zones of blackness between.
        Fatal Voyage
        14
        The following block of code has several dead zones that could cause a variety of problems.
        Mysql stored procedure programming
        15
        Northside had an unusual number of dead zones, but Main Street wasn't normally one of them.
        Moonburn
        16
        It's much easier to maintain, debug, and enhance code that doesn't have " dead zones."
        Mysql stored procedure programming
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        Translations for dead zones
        Spanish
        glklujhl;
        Dead zones across language varieties
        United States of America
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        United Kingdom
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