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In Slow Tech, Ginn, one of the co-hosts, walks readers through dozens of projects featured on the shows, and a good many new ones: weaving baskets, making candles, roasting meat, extracting salt from seawater.—Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025 In an analog age, human hands were required to keep the engines going, even as seawater poured in.—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 July 2025 Villas range from two to five bedrooms and feature private seawater pools, lush gardens, and breathtaking vistas of the cobalt bay.—Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 30 June 2025 The video showed the team’s standard white jersey being pelted by what looked like rain and seawater, with a bell tolling in the background.—Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for seawater
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of seawater was
before the 12th century
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