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The phrase "a trough into" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing a physical or metaphorical channel or depression leading into something else.
Example: "The river flowed into a trough into which the surrounding landscape sloped gently."
Alternatives: "a channel leading to" or "a depression into".
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We built a big cistern, and water runs off the roof into a trough into the cistern.
Miners strip off a long girdle of the bark to make a trough into which they shovel coltan-bearing mud, which is then flushed with water.
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And yet, WBAI has fallen into a trough in the past decade.
During both these wars the leadership enjoyed wide support from media and public, only to plunge into a trough in the aftermath.
There is, however, the question of whether anyone in Congress would actually approve a constitutional amendment to that effect, transforming the institution from a feeding trough into a legislative body.
On September 7, a trough moved into the area and quickly moved John to the northeast.
In one corner, Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey taking up the role played by Mr. Hackman) bids cold adieu to the crone who will make him fantastically rich; in another, Superman again digs a fiery trough into the Kent family farm upon crash landing.
Alana Sherman, sales manager for All Island, said that instead of having an open trough into which water falls (and, unfortunately, into which leaves, dirt, debris and dead bugs accumulate), the LeafGuard system consists of a trough-and-hood combination molded out of a single sheet of aluminum.
Amina would straddle the well, drop the bucket to the bottom, thirty feet down, and haul up the cool water; then she would empty the bucket into a trough for the animals, or into bags made of donkey hides, for storage.
That evening, a QuikScat pass determined that Jerry opened up into a trough, which was being absorbed into the larger frontal system.
The machine instantly evaluates the photos, then catches the pearl and assigns it a trough to roll into a bin of similar pearls.
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