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Recent Examples of dune
Choose from eight gorgeous colors, including dune, earth, and moon.
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Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
All of the dunes and vegetation were decimated as well, and the island was only accessible by boat.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
On a westward-facing shore of Lake Michigan, a gabled roof appears to rise out of the dunes.
—Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2024
Most of the variegated topographical features on Pluto—dunes, hills, broken up blocks called chaotic terrains—are made up of or are the work of frozen methane and nitrogen.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Gabriella Maestri, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
All of the dunes and vegetation were decimated as well, and the island was only accessible by boat.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
On a westward-facing shore of Lake Michigan, a gabled roof appears to rise out of the dunes.
—Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 7 Oct. 2024
Most of the variegated topographical features on Pluto—dunes, hills, broken up blocks called chaotic terrains—are made up of or are the work of frozen methane and nitrogen.
—Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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The 360-acre preserve adjacent to the LEC and Deltona Regional Library is home to a variety of wildlife, including Florida scrub jays and gopher tortoises, which are drawn to the low vegetation and sandy ridges of the scrub habitat.Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2024
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The remains of Christopher Huyler, 44, of nearby Littleton, New Hampshire, were found on a ridge in Franconia Notch State Park in Franconia early Saturday after a search-and-rescue mission was launched Friday night, the state Fish and Game Department said.Joe Kottke, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2024
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Security was tight, with police vans and soldiers in body armor patrolling embankments, while a special detail followed President-elect Donald Trump.Thomas Adamson and John Leicester, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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The inspection found deterioration of the spillway outfall pipe, and trees growing upstream, downstream and along the embankment.Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 8 Nov. 2024
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Powell was talking about Montgomery Reef—a sandstone and dolomite shoal 12 miles from shore that the changing tide reveals and conceals each day—which David Attenborough has called one of the greatest natural wonders in the world.Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
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The Democratic Party, particularly, is prone to shipwrecking on the shoals of unretiring seniors.Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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The 253-foot steel freighter ran aground on a sandbar during the storm.Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
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Andersen said the piping plovers nest on the beach and sandbar at Milford Point.Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 4 Nov. 2024
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To accommodate this throng of humanity, a temporary city of impossible proportions springs up on the sandbanks, featuring tented accommodations, roadways, power supplies, and medical facilities.Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024
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Since the sixties, Pickford explained, divers had been searching for the wreck off the wrong sandbank.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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That biopharma companies and banks would handle personal data today in the same way platforms like Meta or Snapchat might have a decade ago.Gregory Francis, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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The sanctions have hit Russia's energy sector, banks, major businesses, markets and the world's largest diamond mining company.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Dune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dune. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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