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Recent Examples of shoreline
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Norris Lake spans five counties and offers more than 800 miles of shoreline, 22 marinas, and more than 50 islands.
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Feb. 2025
Hundreds of ducks stricken by bird flu have been found in the Chicago area along the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The Manitoulin, a 663-foot freighter, became stranded on Wednesday, Jan. 22, when ice rapidly formed amid freezing temperatures off the Buffalo shoreline, the AP reports.
—David Chiu, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
The second, scrub lot is also hidden behind a logistics and warehouse facility and City Furniture and Home Depot big-box stores, and sits on the shoreline of a containment lake.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Feb. 2025
Hundreds of ducks stricken by bird flu have been found in the Chicago area along the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The Manitoulin, a 663-foot freighter, became stranded on Wednesday, Jan. 22, when ice rapidly formed amid freezing temperatures off the Buffalo shoreline, the AP reports.
—David Chiu, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
The second, scrub lot is also hidden behind a logistics and warehouse facility and City Furniture and Home Depot big-box stores, and sits on the shoreline of a containment lake.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoreline
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Just 30 minutes from Athens city center, this 40-mile stretch of coastline is undergoing a resurgence, driven by the completion of Europe's most extensive coastal park, planned for the end of 2025, and a raft of the most fabulous hotel chains setting up home.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The Palmetto State is probably best known for its unofficial Southern capital of Charleston, but its 187 miles of coastline are a close second.—
Symiah Dorsey,
Southern Living,
21 Feb. 2025
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Claridge’s Flowers has created a bespoke Hotel Il Pellicano bouquet that aims to conjure the feeling of the Tuscan coast with seasonal flowers wrapped in the yellow and white striped paper, recalling the hotel’s colors.—
Samantha Conti,
WWD,
17 Feb. 2025
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Nevada takes a crack at it Record high egg prices prompted Nevada lawmakers to unanimously back suspending their cage-free egg law Denver Public Schools sues Trump administration to block immigration raids at schools A Navy jet crashed off the coast of San Diego.—
The Denver Post,
The Denver Post,
16 Feb. 2025
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The ceremony is looking for other venues before planning a return to that Santa Monica beach location once the 2028 Olympics have passed.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
24 Feb. 2025
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Try The Vegan Tasting Menu at Azure Restaurant Set alongside the beach, Azure Restaurant is a fine dining establishment at the hotel.—
Robin Raven,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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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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Assuming 1,000 feet of beachfront per project, Gaza would support the construction of up to 132 new multi-hundred-million-dollar structures.—
David Friedman,
Newsweek,
10 Feb. 2025
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On a drive up the slim island neck, the condo and hotel beachfront suddenly gives way to a shift back to the area’s original mangrove habitats.—
John Oseid,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Malibu beachfront properties are now just a scorched seashore.—
Stephen Humphries,
The Christian Science Monitor,
18 Feb. 2025
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Most ranchers at the beloved seashore have agreed to take money from the Nature Conservancy to cease operations, as John Beck reports for the Press Democrat.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Shoreline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoreline. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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