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Recent Examples of seaboard
Thousands of longshoremen and dockworkers along the Eastern seaboard of the United States and the Gulf Coast walked off the job on Tuesday after the International Longshoremen's Association failed to reach contract agreements with the United States Maritime Alliance, which represents the ports.
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Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Until December, the Saleh-Houthi alliance controlled the northern Yemeni highlands and much of the western seaboard.
—Peter Salisbury, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2018
If the sixth safety mechanism had malfunctioned, the four-megaton bomb could have detonated on impact, showering the eastern seaboard with radioactive fallout.
—Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
Projections currently show that the storm will drift over the Atlantic Ocean, avoiding the eastern seaboard but disrupting cruises.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
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Jack Kelly, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Until December, the Saleh-Houthi alliance controlled the northern Yemeni highlands and much of the western seaboard.
—Peter Salisbury, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2018
If the sixth safety mechanism had malfunctioned, the four-megaton bomb could have detonated on impact, showering the eastern seaboard with radioactive fallout.
—Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
Projections currently show that the storm will drift over the Atlantic Ocean, avoiding the eastern seaboard but disrupting cruises.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seaboard
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The Odesa port and two others on the nearby seacoast have been a particular target of Russian wrath for the last eight months, since Ukraine managed to open a coast-hugging 350-mile Black Sea grain corridor to the Bosporus strait.Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
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Shikoku presents another Japan of pristine landscapes, pilgrimage temples, fishing villages, rugged seacoasts, forested hills and country kindness.Roger Sands, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
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The company secured a federal contract to run a colony of 3,500 monkeys on Morgan Island off the coast of South Carolina, also known as Monkey Island.Austin Mullen, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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They were first spotted together in November 2022, when the pair visited Provincia de Puntarenas (a province located on Costa Rica's coast) with her two kids.Charna Flam, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
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Team Rhaenyra Rhaenyra is on a seashore with Syrax opposite Seasmoke and that dragon’s new rider, Addam of Hull.Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
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Where are the national parks located? All 50 states are home to other National Park Service units, like national battlefields and seashores, which are sometimes called parks.Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
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So his days passed: breakfast, a stroll across the island or a bus ride to the southern beach, lunch followed by an afternoon siesta in the shade of a seaside palm.Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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Growing up in a small seaside town in Southern Italy, I was surrounded by breathtaking beauty.Benedetto Biondi, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Opening in the same year was the elegant Interlaken Hotel, on the shores of Twin Lakes, a gorgeous but ultimately doomed retreat for well-off visitors.James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
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The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Sardinia is ringed with coves lapped by translucent turquoise water, soft white sand beaches and some of the warmest swimming conditions in the region, as balmy as 80 degrees in summer.Ann Abel, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Barbie star’s chic new chop is courtesy of celebrity hairstylist Marc Mena—also known as the man behind Madelyn Cline’s iconic beach bob—who shared a behind-the-scenes reel of Greenblatt’s transformation to Instagram.Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 5 Nov. 2024
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The weather service issued a a high surf advisory that was extended through 11 a.m. Saturday, and a coastal flood advisory along much of the Bay coastline, set to run through 1 p.m. Sunday.Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The clifftop adults-only retreat overlooks 500m of pristine coastline, on the perimeter or the capital city of Muscat, and is also adjacent to a family-friendly offering, Shangri-La Bar Al Jissah.Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 4 Nov. 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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