as in bay
a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline
the city sits on the shores of a deep estuary where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean
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Recent Examples of estuary
Unlike solar or wind, osmotic power can run continuously wherever fresh and saltwater meet; at estuaries, desalination plants, even inland salt lakes.
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New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
With a loud blast of her horn MS Ambience pulls slowly out into the flow of the estuary in a cold winter rain.
—David Greig
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
The vast majority of cells that were present, just in a normal estuary, had these really exotic new branches on the tree of life that nobody knew anything about.
—Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
But for wetland biologists and others with a stake in the health of the surrounding Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast, the birds represent the latest – and an exponentially growing – threat to the few remaining wetlands left in California.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
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New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
With a loud blast of her horn MS Ambience pulls slowly out into the flow of the estuary in a cold winter rain.
—David Greig
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
The vast majority of cells that were present, just in a normal estuary, had these really exotic new branches on the tree of life that nobody knew anything about.
—Laura Poppick, Quanta Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
But for wetland biologists and others with a stake in the health of the surrounding Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast, the birds represent the latest – and an exponentially growing – threat to the few remaining wetlands left in California.
—Calmatters, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for estuary
Noun
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Its 12,000-square-foot store will have higher ceilings, more gasoline fueling pumps, a two-bay drive-thru carwash, additional parking and a separate diesel fueling area, according to village documents.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
1 Oct. 2025
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The discovery came two weeks after a body was found in the wheel bay of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Maui.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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Bleary-eyed coverage that kicks off before sunrise in the States, with gusts off the firth and cut lines that can swallow a top 10 in an hour.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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On the distant horizon was a cluster of faint street lights, a small town hunkered on the far side of the firth.—
Douglas Stuart,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2020
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“Estuary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/estuary. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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