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Recent Examples of seacoast
Mike McCormack lives in Galway, Ireland, on a seacoast facing the Atlantic with rocky, unforgiving cliffs that give way to thin, hardpan soil.
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Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
The failure of that withdrawal to secure any sort of lasting peace agreement has left Gaza a kind of orphan, largely cut off from other Palestinians in the West Bank and almost entirely isolated by both Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza’s borders and its seacoast.
—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
Settle in for the night in a 1870's farmhouse, the Little River Bed & Breakfast, along the Nubanusit Brook.
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Portsmouth
See the warm colors of the changing leaves on the country's smallest seacoast.
—Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
With no seacoast, the foliage starts appearing by the middle of September in the highest elevations and is already peaking before month’s end.
—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
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Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
The failure of that withdrawal to secure any sort of lasting peace agreement has left Gaza a kind of orphan, largely cut off from other Palestinians in the West Bank and almost entirely isolated by both Israel and Egypt, which control Gaza’s borders and its seacoast.
—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2023
Settle in for the night in a 1870's farmhouse, the Little River Bed & Breakfast, along the Nubanusit Brook.
07
Portsmouth
See the warm colors of the changing leaves on the country's smallest seacoast.
—Molly McArdle, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
With no seacoast, the foliage starts appearing by the middle of September in the highest elevations and is already peaking before month’s end.
—Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seacoast
Noun
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The Typhon is capable of firing Tomahawk missiles that put much of China's eastern seaboard in range.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025
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Eastern seaboard are scrambling to keep the lights on.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
29 Oct. 2012
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Image Then, soon after retaking office, Mr. Trump proposed that the United States should seize control of Gaza and permanently displace the entire Palestinian population of the devastated seaside enclave, one of the most brazen ideas that any American leader has advanced about the region.—
Luke Broadwater,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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There were no injuries, and Isar said its seaside launch pad was intact following the accident.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This 2024 Sneaker Award–winning hiking shoe carried our tester over meadows, state forests, seashores, pavement and prairie-like terrain without aggravating her plantar fasciitis or roll-prone ankles.—
Sara Coughlin,
SELF,
24 Mar. 2025
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For those who enjoy the changing seasons, historic sites, and the Atlantic seashore, a home in the northeastern U.S. is ideal.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Mar. 2025
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American military veteran hijacks plane in Belize, officials say The airplane, which had only 14 passengers on board, had been due to fly the short route from Corozal near the Mexican border to San Pedro, a popular tourist destination off the coast.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Bohai Sea According to satellite imagery, China's first operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was spotted underway in the Bohai Sea, off the coast of northeastern China, on Tuesday.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Embassy officials also recommend avoiding jet ski rentals in the Bahamas, being aware of one's surroundings, staying alert in public restrooms and near Nassau beaches, and following local weather and Marine alerts.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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One vendor, who has sold beach chairs to Amazon for over a decade, reported that a $500,000 order was canceled after the chairs were already produced, leaving the vendor with additional financial responsibility.—
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Apr. 2025
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Throughout the 26 miles of coastline, loggerhead sea turtles come ashore to nest and lay eggs from May through August.—
Grace Haynes,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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The United States has the highest number of commercial helicopters in the world, USA Today reports, with most concentrated in tourist areas known for stunning aerial vistas like Manhattan, the Grand Canyon and along the coastlines of Hawaii.—
Mackenzie Schmidt,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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Only after the worst mass extinction of all time, as Earth’s ecosystems struggled to recover from intense global warming spurred by volcanoes, did reptiles began to live by the shoreline and become ever more at home in the water.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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However, rising water levels are expected to carry debris that was once on the shoreline out into open waters.—
Asher Redd,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
3 Feb. 2022
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Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.—
Silvia Marchetti,
CNN,
8 Oct. 2022
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“Seacoast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seacoast. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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