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As the National Park Service (NPS) website explained, the beach got its name thanks to the old Coast Guard building that stands on the dunes still overlooking the shoreline.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
Elevated beach-style homes sitting atop pilings were once protected by dunes and dry sand.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
Those same properties used to be filled with land, dunes and dry sand, the service said.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
In the past few years, the Shinnecock have employed a combination of strategies to protect themselves against rising seas, like planting beach grass to strengthen dunes and developing oyster reefs to blunt tidal energy.
—Joseph Lee, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
Elevated beach-style homes sitting atop pilings were once protected by dunes and dry sand.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
Those same properties used to be filled with land, dunes and dry sand, the service said.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
In the past few years, the Shinnecock have employed a combination of strategies to protect themselves against rising seas, like planting beach grass to strengthen dunes and developing oyster reefs to blunt tidal energy.
—Joseph Lee, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dune
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The villas were built along the highest ridge, above the resort’s other guest rooms.Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
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Klum’s costume included a curved head, long tail and realistic ridges that covered her entire body, except for her eyes and mouth.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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The latest death involved a man who drove a car off a steep embankment on Aug. 1 after taking a one-mile circular hike at the park.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
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Advertisement The driver was an older person who lost control of their vehicle on a nearby embankment and had minor injuries, said watch commander Lt. Rony Del Pinto of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2024
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Hope is always crashing against the shoals of disappointment.Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
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Their collective movement combined with their bold stripes creates even more visual confusion for predators that are seeking to target one individual in the shoal, particularly as these small stripey fish are feeding on the reef.GrrlScientist, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
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Requiem sharks, which include blacktip, spinner and sandbar sharks, are most commonly involved in attacks in Florida.Tom Howarth FOLLOW, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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Many who fell ill recently reported wading in the waist-deep water at the sandbar, which can become crowded during summer weekends and holidays.Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 15 June 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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Strewn across the riverbed, some of the ships still have turrets, command bridges, broken masts and twisted hulls, while others lie mostly submerged under sandbanks.Reuters, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
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The Fed’s Beige Book, a quarterly collection of survey responses from businesses compiled by the 12 regional Fed banks published Wednesday, highlighted a wide range of businesses that are suffering because of election uncertainty.Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
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Most of the cuts will come from the bank's Troy office.Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Dune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dune. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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