tide pool
noun
: a pool of salt water left (as in a rock basin) by an ebbing tide
called also tidal pool
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The 40-person team picked up 20 pounds of trash and recyclables along with 700 cigarette butts and various items such as a bath mat, snorkels, toys and construction equipment around La Jolla Cove, Scripps Park, the Children’s Pool and the tide pools.
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025
In a shallow tide pool off Russia’s Bering Island, a researcher caught, by hand, a small, colorful bottom-dweller typically only found along the northwestern coast of the United States.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025
With tide pools below and a grassy bluff above, this serene park offers a sense of calm that’s even more powerful when shared with fewer people.
—Cliff Lewis, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025
His job was to collect data from the islands’ tide pools and kelp forests to document the health, well-being and changes of the islands’ landscape.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
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Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025
In a shallow tide pool off Russia’s Bering Island, a researcher caught, by hand, a small, colorful bottom-dweller typically only found along the northwestern coast of the United States.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025
With tide pools below and a grassy bluff above, this serene park offers a sense of calm that’s even more powerful when shared with fewer people.
—Cliff Lewis, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2025
His job was to collect data from the islands’ tide pools and kelp forests to document the health, well-being and changes of the islands’ landscape.
—Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Tide pool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tide%20pool. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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