Thesaurus results for DEEPWATER

deepwater

adjective

Definition of deepwater

as in deep-sea

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Recent Examples of deepwater Morocco has been building a $1 billion deepwater port in the territory’s city of Dakhla, which featured in the video Trump shared Sunday. — Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026 Marine welders handle massive, oddly shaped, and heavy components such as deepwater jacket strengthening rings and module nodes. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026 Eisbrenner chose Brownsville for its deepwater access, low vessel traffic, and her conviction that the oil-rich Permian Basin in West Texas would eventually flood the region with excess natural gas. — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 24 May 2026 Brazil, the region’s largest oil and gas producer, is now a global leader in deepwater and ultra-deepwater production and aims to rank among the world’s top five crude producers by 2030, driven by prolific fields such as Búzios. — Juan Pablo Spinetto, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for deepwater

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Ocean roots The physics behind this tabletop development shares surprising roots with deep-sea oceanography.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026
For next steps, the researchers plan to scale the technology into larger structures and prove its long-term durability in real marine and deep-sea conditions.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of deep-sea

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Charlie Fox, a 56-year-old San Clemente resident and marine meteorologist, said sand provides a critical buffer between whatever structures — train tracks, homes, lifeguard headquarters — are built along the coast.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
The hurricanes developed amid a marine heat wave and a strong El Niño, the pattern of ocean waters warming in the central and eastern Pacific.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026

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