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Recent Examples of littoral
Pia Singh, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
One of those vessels will be the USS Marinette, the 13th Freedom Class littoral combat ship.
—John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022
Now, in a distracted world, China proudly touts the efficiency of its surveillance state while continuing to build up its military and pursue its ambitious efforts to gain a strategic advantage along the Asian littoral.
—Lewis Libby, National Review, 6 May 2021
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Adjective
The DoD awarded multi-million dollar contracts to General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman late last year to sustain aspects of the Navy’s littoral combat ship (LCS) fleet.
—Pia Singh, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2024
One of those vessels will be the USS Marinette, the 13th Freedom Class littoral combat ship.
—John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2024
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Anyone who went to the east African littoral could choose to become Swahili, and many did.
—John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022
Now, in a distracted world, China proudly touts the efficiency of its surveillance state while continuing to build up its military and pursue its ambitious efforts to gain a strategic advantage along the Asian littoral.
—Lewis Libby, National Review, 6 May 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for littoral
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The tsunami, which was triggered by a powerful 9.3-magnitude earthquake off the coast of northern Indonesia, is considered the deadliest natural disaster this century and one of the deadliest in recorded history.Michael Fiorentino, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
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As sea life off the coast of mainland Madagascar has declined even faster, many fishermen and their families choose to make the long journey to the Barren Isles.Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
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A lot happened, including Thompson panicking and going on the run in 2012, stashing some $4 million in offshore accounts.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
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Another potential route: recruiting offshore talent via temporary work visas.Andrew Schaap, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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The legend was himself, a Maui resident who owned 25 acres on the island's Southeastern shore for three decades.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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The tower is set along the shores of Walt Disney World’s Seven Seas Lagoon and offers great views of the Magic Kingdom.Megan duBois, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The sheriff's office also issued an evacuation order Monday afternoon for oceanfront residents along an approximately 3-mile stretch of shoreline just south of Santa Cruz, citing large swells and high tides.Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 24 Dec. 2024
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Choose from one-to-four bedroom hale, each with their own views of the postcard-perfect shoreline, gardens, mountains, or lagoon.Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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The issue will likely explode after the third season of The White Lotus airs (Sicily's tourism soared by 50% after season two was set on its Italian coastline).Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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The oil spill has impacted at least 60 kilometers of coastline, Greenpeace Ukraine said Tuesday.Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 18 Dec. 2024
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Projections currently show that the storm will drift over the Atlantic Ocean, avoiding the eastern seaboard.James Powel, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2024
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The business community understood the economic devastation the Eastern seaboard’s tourism and fishing industries faced.Frank Knapp, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2024
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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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But anyone who chooses to live in the fire plain — as with a flood plain or seashore — must accept a certain small risk of, well, nature being natural.Josh Schlossberg, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2024
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Lobos State Natural Reserve, a heavenly stretch of seashore between Carmel-by-the-Sea and Big Sur.Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Littoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littoral. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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