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beaching

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verb

present participle of beach
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Noun
  • And since its stranding, the animal has reportedly been breathing irregularly and hardly moving.
    K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The stranding took place at Bigbury Beach in South Devon, about 230 miles southwest of London, according to a statement from the Devon Wildlife Trust, a local conservation charity.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Talking things through with them can be comforting and grounding.
    Barton Goldsmith, AJC.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Lewkowitz opened the discussion by grounding the conversation in history, noting that cotton has remained a viable and desired resource for seven millennia.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The animal begins wrecking the fields and terrorizing the people.
    Perin Gürel, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The tornado left a trail of damage in Hillsdale, Kansas, Monday night, wrecking an RV park, toppling power lines, leveling homes and destroying a storage facility near West 255th Street.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Tracking Roman shipwreck repairs Back in 2016, archaeologists discovered a shipwreck from the Roman Republic, the Ilovik–Paržine 1.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2026
  • In November 2024, military officials in England announced that a shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland was confirmed to be the HMS Hawke, a British cruiser sunk by a torpedo during World War I, killing more than 500 crew members on board.
    Stephen Smith, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Downstairs, a styling session for the fall 2026 collection; up here, on the fourth floor, almost every inch of space is taken by patternmakers, bolts of fabric, designers scuttling about, and racks and more racks of clothes.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Paramount cliched its $31-a-share in cash merger for WBD on February 27, scuttling Warner’s previous agreement with Netflix.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Beaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaching. Accessed 6 May. 2026.

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