as in shore
the usually sandy or gravelly land bordering a body of water
she loves walking along the beach, looking for shells that the waves cast up
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Recent Examples of beach
Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Her husband Peter and daughter Felicity made the find during one of the family’s regular quad bike expeditions to clear the beach of trash.
—CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Eric Larsen, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The collection brings colorful, nostalgic energy of summertime soda cans to the poolside or beach with Kulani Kinis swimwear.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 July 2025
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Noun
Hazardous marine and beach conditions continue today as a cold front pushes through the area later this morning and Hurricane Melissa progresses northwards in the western Atlantic.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Her husband Peter and daughter Felicity made the find during one of the family’s regular quad bike expeditions to clear the beach of trash.
—CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
Most of the park's beaches are open daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., while West and Porter beaches close at 9 p.m. West Beach offers locker rooms, showers and lifeguards from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. from the Friday of Memorial Day weekend through the Monday of Labor Day weekend.
—Eric Larsen, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The collection brings colorful, nostalgic energy of summertime soda cans to the poolside or beach with Kulani Kinis swimwear.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for beach
Verb
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Much has been said about Bella's plain-Jane persona, but Stewart's earnest performance vivifies the character with a plucky yet lovesick duality that also grounds the film's lofty fantasy sequences.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
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Lane, who is relentlessly serious and ambitious, gets complimented for being more grounded and intellectual than Gala.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The four tried to sail across the sea but were shipwrecked in Spain, where all four of them survived and went on to their next adventure in Not Mexico together.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Two married sea-explorers are stranded, Gilligan-style, after a storm shipwrecks their craft.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Swim in a direction following the shoreline.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Outer Banks is a chain of barrier islands stretching the coast of North Carolina, featuring more than 100 miles of shoreline.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The aid is tied up in the current budget showdown between congressional Republicans and Democrats.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Republican president has been trying to tie up trade deals along the way, eager to show that his confrontational approach of tariffs is paying dividends for Americans who are uneasy about the job market and watching a federal government shutdown extend into its fifth week.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Storm preparations Cuba has been struck almost yearly by a major hurricane in recent years, sometimes twice, wrecking the country’s already decrepit infrastructure, damaging crops and destroying thousands of homes in precarious condition.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
27 Oct. 2025
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In 1816 the stratosphere was saturated with Tambora’s dust, and sea ice nearly wrecked Scoresby’s ship off the eastern coast of Greenland.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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On the opposite coast, Hurricane Melissa swept through Montego Bay, in Jamaica’s north.—
Avery Schmitz,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Directed by Joshua Friedman and produced by Linda Duncombe, The Queen’s Jewels draws inspiration from true accounts of treasure hunters off the east coast of Florida.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The process, which is necessary for Starship to reach distant destinations, is a complex one requiring two vehicles equipped with docking adapters to meet up in orbit to transfer hundreds of tons of super-cooled propellant.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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The ship docked in Bimini, Bahamas on the third day.—
Essence,
Essence,
4 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Water was reported above car tires in part of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, some cars were stranded around the region, and in the Riverdale section of the Bronx floodwaters reached the bottom of doors of sedan-style cars, the weather service said in a summary of storm reports.—
Phil Helsel,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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Last month, emergency workers in Pakistan used drones to find people stranded on rooftops by massive floods.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Beach.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beach. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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