corniche

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Recent Examples of corniche The spectacle opened with a cinematic flourish: a video of Robinhood cofounder and CEO Vlad Tenev driving a midnight-blue 1962 Jaguar E-Type convertible along the corniche, an homage to Cary Grant’s entrance in Hitchcock’s film. Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025 Instead, an occasionally bleak corniche winds down the coast from a state-of-the-art seaport — strategically placed 70 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz — past a dusty, sunbaked town of old office towers, hotels, the obligatory shopping mall, and streets of low-rise shops and houses. Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025 On Beirut’s seaside corniche, Mohammad Mohammad from the village of Marwahin in southern Lebanon was strolling with his three children. Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 That’s when Etihad Airways will link Atlanta to Abu Dhabi with its dazzling corniche, outpost of the famed Louvre museum and, soon, the capital of the United Arab Emirates’ own Sphere. Edward Russell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024 Forty-eight-year-old Mustafa Mazloum lay on a piece of cardboard under the shade of a tree in the grassy median along the city’s famed seaside corniche. Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 Families rest on Beirut's corniche after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburb Monday. Zoya Awky, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024 Walking shirtless on the corniche with his elderly father, Othman said a lifetime under multiple wars had strengthened him and his countrymen. Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corniche
Noun
  • Johnson led officers on a chase through city streets before crashing at Seventh and Barton streets, the release says.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This is the fifth year of the campaign effort to petition Detroit’s city council to honor Mudge by naming a street after him.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • America’s hometown has open arms for all things Mexican food, with choices up and down the main boulevards.
    Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • His civic service helped lay the groundwork for a parks and boulevards system that remains a defining feature of Kansas City’s identity.
    Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Future of eVTOLs In the longer term, Goldstein sees a future where eVTOLs are ubiquitous in the skies above American cities, flying in designated, but invisible, sky highways to ensure safety.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Here's your daily look at traffic on major highways in the Kansas City area.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • For the filmmakers working in the region over the past two years, it’s been a long, arduous road to reach audiences, as the war impacted their physical productions and made potential distributors wary of facing political backlash for releasing their films.
    Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Gripen fighters have the reputation of being relatively cheap and easy to maintain and arm, and able to operate in austere conditions – using roads or even dirt roads for runways.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Violette_FR’s new London home has large windows and a separate entrance facing Carnaby Street, the historic shopping thoroughfare that’s crowded with locals and tourists alike.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Macy’s chose China Grove for the facility due to its position in the Southeast near major thoroughfares, enabling faster, more efficient service to millions of customers.
    Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Marines were firing artillery from the coast to inland impact zones on the other side of the freeway.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The freeway was previously closed for the investigation, MSP said in the post.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Extra cholesterol could get in the way of that by contributing to the formation of waxy plaques in your arteries, which can slow blood flow to your heart, Srijana Maharjan, MD, the lead author of the study and an internal medicine resident at Allegheny General Hospital, in Pittsburgh, tells SELF.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 17 Oct. 2025
  • It was found along the Horus War Road, a chain of strongholds in Sinai that served as a military and commercial artery connecting Egypt with Palestine.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On Saturday night over a week ago, a group of protesters blocked a nearby expressway.
    Natasha Korecki, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2025
  • On the morning of Islam’s funeral, the streets of Parkchester, a neighborhood of brick row houses and big-box stores, were blocked off on both sides of the expressway.
    Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Corniche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corniche. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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