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Recent Examples of coastland
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.
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Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
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
Reparations have been a periodic topic of debate since the waning days of the Civil War, when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule to formerly enslaved families in a swath of confiscated Southern coastland.
—Lee Hawkins and Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
—Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland which could dump torrential amounts of rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
—Fox News, 13 Sep. 2021
The verdant coastland and marshes teem with wildlife and fish, but every 100 minutes, land roughly the size of a football field vanishes under water.
—Anne McClintock, Teen Vogue, 11 Feb. 2020
The commission, which oversees development on about 1,100 miles of coastland, says its mission is to preserve the state’s movie-scene beaches for future use by all residents.
—Anne C. Mulkern, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2019
Glacier Bay covers a wild variety of terrains including ocean water, glaciers, mountains, temperate rainforests, rocky coastlands, and fjords.
—James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2019
Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
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
Reparations have been a periodic topic of debate since the waning days of the Civil War, when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule to formerly enslaved families in a swath of confiscated Southern coastland.
—Lee Hawkins and Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2022
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
—Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland which could dump torrential amounts of rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
—Fox News, 13 Sep. 2021
The verdant coastland and marshes teem with wildlife and fish, but every 100 minutes, land roughly the size of a football field vanishes under water.
—Anne McClintock, Teen Vogue, 11 Feb. 2020
The commission, which oversees development on about 1,100 miles of coastland, says its mission is to preserve the state’s movie-scene beaches for future use by all residents.
—Anne C. Mulkern, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2019
Glacier Bay covers a wild variety of terrains including ocean water, glaciers, mountains, temperate rainforests, rocky coastlands, and fjords.
—James Lynch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coastland
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The plant is overwhelmed by Tijuana sewage and dumps millions of gallons of untreated wastewater into the Pacific Ocean, creating an ongoing environmental justice crisis along the South County coast.Andrew Keatts, Axios, 20 Nov. 2024
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By Sunday, rainfall totals could exceed 10 inches along the coast in Eureka and Mendocino County, according to the National Weather Service, which issued a flood watch for that area through Thursday.Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 19 Nov. 2024
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Vlorë, Albania Albania is a digital nomad’s playground—where stunning coastlines meet mountain escapes, all while the cost of living is a fraction of most global cities.Chloe Berger, Fortune Europe, 27 Nov. 2024
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Eco-friendly road trips to the Ningaloo Reef, which stretches along the coastline for a whopping 162 miles, are now easier thanks to the new Queensland Electric Super Highway.Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Nov. 2024
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Regent partners with local company Beach Yoga SoCal to offer sunrise classes mere feet from the shoreline.Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Since official Atlantic tropical cyclone recordkeeping began some 174 years ago, nearly 600 tropical storms or hurricanes have struck the mainland U.S. shoreline.Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
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Panama offers two long coasts—one with crashing Pacific waves and the other with crystal-blue Caribbean waters—with countless islands on both sides of its shores.Kathleen Peddicord, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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Mather explained that historical eruptions have even led to harmful gases reaching Europe's shores, but that the scale of these events is far below that threshold for now.Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
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And there’s a reason so many travelers like to end their safari adventures with a sojourn on the sand: Bush and beach have been a pairing for the ages.Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Nov. 2024
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With wide beaches at the shore and scrublands inland, the largest colony of Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) are found here—there are around 400,000 breeding adults.Scott Travers, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
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Those parts of the country have endured crushing impacts from climate change and generally receive categorically less funding for climate adaptation than the coasts on the eastern and western seaboards.John Sabo, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
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Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty The morning after Hurricane Helene pummeled the eastern seaboard of the US, Thomas Witherspoon inspected the damage to his western North Carolina home.Makena Kelly, WIRED, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Coastland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coastland. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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