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Recent Examples of dune
The region has transitioned from a productive agricultural center to a semiarid zone due to a rapid decline in groundwater levels and the emergence of desert-like dune formations.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
All of the Texas coastline is considered public land, from the water to the dune line.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025
With lawns, herb gardens, ballrooms and waterfront dune cottages, the resort can host lavish ceremonies of any size.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 6 Dec. 2025
As this occurs, wave runup and ocean overwash are forecast to develop, especially across the more vulnerable areas of Hwy 12 near Pony Pens where weakened dune structures are noted.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
All of the Texas coastline is considered public land, from the water to the dune line.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025
With lawns, herb gardens, ballrooms and waterfront dune cottages, the resort can host lavish ceremonies of any size.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 6 Dec. 2025
As this occurs, wave runup and ocean overwash are forecast to develop, especially across the more vulnerable areas of Hwy 12 near Pony Pens where weakened dune structures are noted.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dune
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After this brief stretch of colder weather, a steady warming trend is expected from Thursday through Sunday as the ridge of high pressure to our west slowly shifts east and settles over Texas.—
Mary Wasson,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Feb. 2026
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The summer-like heat is thanks to a ridge of high pressure lingering in the atmosphere, extending through the San Francisco Bay Area and into the Pacific Northwest.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2026
Noun
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After the impact, the sprinter van ended up down an embankment.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026
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After weeks of investigation, authorities have arrested the estranged husband of a Newport Beach woman whose body was found down a steep embankment in a San Bernardino County mountain town in California.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Waters off the point are treacherous, including colliding currents, shoals and sandbars.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
22 Jan. 2026
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The park service first documented zebra mussels during a training dive at the SS Sevona shipwreck off the Sand Island shoal in 2015.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
20 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Uneven sandbars lifted and then dropped us in a slow-motion, repetitive dance on the sediment floor.—
Richard Greenberg,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Shorebirds and seagulls waded along a sandbar, poking their beaks into the sand to hunt for food.—
Max Chesnes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2026
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More than seven miles long and up to half a mile wide, the Kniepsand sandbank that faces the open sea shifts slightly every year.—
CNT Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Herald’s data show these already densely populated sandbanks are growing skyward to pack in more people: A third of all housing on barrier islands is now in buildings with more than 50 units.—
Denise Hruby,
Miami Herald,
15 Dec. 2025
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The crisis was so severe that Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns had collapsed just three months earlier.—
Matt Egan,
CNN Money,
2 Feb. 2026
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So far, Becerra’s former chief of staff Sean McCluskie and Sacramento lobbyist Greg Campbell have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud.—
Susan Shelley,
Oc Register,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Dune.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dune. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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