: a tide of greater-than-average range around the times of new moon and full moon
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Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The alignment of the sun, moon, and Earth creates extremely low, low tides and super-high high tides, both commonly known as spring tides.
—Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2023
Along the southern coast, safe harvesting with sufficiently high returns is only possible during low spring tides, when the sun and moon align, exerting their maximum gravitational force on the ebb and flow of the water.
—Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
The yet-to-be-named, 600-square-mile iceberg broke away from the nearly 500-foot-thick Brunt Ice Shelf on Sunday during a particularly high tide known as a spring tide, according to a news release issued by the British Antarctic Survey.
—Dan Stillman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
The break happened Sunday during a spring tide, according to the researchers.
—Eric MacK, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
Built in the 1850s on a low-lying saltmarsh, Fairbourne already lies beneath sea level at high spring tide.
—Sylvia Hui, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2021
The breakthrough came after intensive efforts to push and pull the ship with 10 tugboats and vacuum up sand with several dredgers at spring tide.
—Editors, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
The partial freeing of the vessel came after intensive efforts to push and pull the vessel with 10 tugboats when the full moon brought spring tide, canal services firm Leth Agencies said, raising the canal’s water level and hopes for a breakthrough.
—Isabel Debre and Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2021
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As a spring tide rushed out of Baltimore harbor just after midnight on Tuesday, the hulking outlines of a cargo ship nearly three football fields long and stacked high with thousands of containers sliced through frigid waters toward the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The alignment of the sun, moon, and Earth creates extremely low, low tides and super-high high tides, both commonly known as spring tides.
—Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 19 Apr. 2023
Along the southern coast, safe harvesting with sufficiently high returns is only possible during low spring tides, when the sun and moon align, exerting their maximum gravitational force on the ebb and flow of the water.
—Curtis W. Marean, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016
The yet-to-be-named, 600-square-mile iceberg broke away from the nearly 500-foot-thick Brunt Ice Shelf on Sunday during a particularly high tide known as a spring tide, according to a news release issued by the British Antarctic Survey.
—Dan Stillman, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
The break happened Sunday during a spring tide, according to the researchers.
—Eric MacK, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
Built in the 1850s on a low-lying saltmarsh, Fairbourne already lies beneath sea level at high spring tide.
—Sylvia Hui, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Nov. 2021
The breakthrough came after intensive efforts to push and pull the ship with 10 tugboats and vacuum up sand with several dredgers at spring tide.
—Editors, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2021
The partial freeing of the vessel came after intensive efforts to push and pull the vessel with 10 tugboats when the full moon brought spring tide, canal services firm Leth Agencies said, raising the canal’s water level and hopes for a breakthrough.
—Isabel Debre and Samy Magdy, chicagotribune.com, 29 Mar. 2021
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“Springtide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/springtide. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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