coast guard
noun
1
: a military or naval force employed in guarding a coast or responsible for the safety, order, and operation of maritime traffic in neighboring waters
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Tensions further escalated after two Chinese vessels, a navy destroyer and a coast guard craft, collided near the reef last month, heavily damaging the latter, while chasing a Philippine coast guard cutter.
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
For the Swedish coast guard, the job may not involve little green men, but the seas are proving full of strange encounters nonetheless.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
Competing claims by Beijing and Manila have become increasingly contentious in the past few years, including violent clashes between their coast guards with water cannons and, in one case, bladed weapons.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
Agencies such as national navies and coast guards no longer need to rely solely on costly physical patrols over huge areas.
—Jennifer Raynor, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
For the Swedish coast guard, the job may not involve little green men, but the seas are proving full of strange encounters nonetheless.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
Competing claims by Beijing and Manila have become increasingly contentious in the past few years, including violent clashes between their coast guards with water cannons and, in one case, bladed weapons.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
Agencies such as national navies and coast guards no longer need to rely solely on costly physical patrols over huge areas.
—Jennifer Raynor, Space.com, 12 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for coast guard
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“Coast guard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coast%20guard. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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