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Recent Examples of beaching
Noun
The usual Hawaiian activities are done here–hiking, sailing, snorkeling and beaching but within an almost unspoiled part of Hawaii.—Juliana Shallcross, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2023
And since its stranding, the animal has reportedly been breathing irregularly and hardly moving.
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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.
What is in tandem here is the exuberantly generative possibility of life itself (SCOBY, water) alongside the very synthetic polymers that are literally wrecking life on an individual and systemic level.
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Eugenie Brinkema,
ARTnews.com,
14 June 2026
Belt-Stubblefield did not stop and ended up wrecking his car.
Ten migrants survived the shipwreck, which occurred on June 12 in the Mediterranean Sea, off the eastern part of the North African nation, according to the Abreen group, which tracks movements of migrants in eastern Libya.
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ABC News,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
Some horses survived shipwrecks off the east coast and swam to shore, while others were abandoned in the wake of natural disasters.
Maritime tracking data from the trade intelligence firm Kpler shows the Yantar was in the area in January last year, mooring in Egypt then Algeria, and then sending one position ping 20 km (12 miles) from the last position of the Ursa Major on January 15.
The court complaint against the utilities commission and the California Attorney General’s office asks for a court order declaring that California cannot stop AT&T from scuttling landlines.
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Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
17 June 2026
The rationale was that any war Israel fought would inflame popular anti-Israeli sentiment in the Arab and Muslim world, scuttling the Abraham Accords as Arab governments would withdraw out of fear of backlash.