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oil spillnounAn escape of oil into the sea or other body of water: this was the site of a disastrous offshore oil spill...- A post-Katrina release of oil has been compared to the much smaller 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
- The dark liquids have similarly ominous implications, as if to underscore the dangers of offshore oil drilling and the devastation wrought by oil spills.
- The photographs document the struggle last year along the northern Spanish coast against one of the worst oil spills in history.
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