as in bay
a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline
the city sits on the shores of a deep estuary where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean
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Recent Examples of estuary
The Tamsui River is a major waterway and estuary in northern Taiwan that flows into the Taiwan Strait, the channel separating Taiwan from mainland China.
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Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Coastal estuaries are the scene of intense daily dramas of survival, featuring a cast of hundreds of species, and much of it is microscopic and underwater.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Unlike solar or wind, osmotic power can run continuously wherever fresh and saltwater meet; at estuaries, desalination plants, even inland salt lakes.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
With a loud blast of her horn MS Ambience pulls slowly out into the flow of the estuary in a cold winter rain.
—David Greig
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
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Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
Coastal estuaries are the scene of intense daily dramas of survival, featuring a cast of hundreds of species, and much of it is microscopic and underwater.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Unlike solar or wind, osmotic power can run continuously wherever fresh and saltwater meet; at estuaries, desalination plants, even inland salt lakes.
—New Atlas, 16 Sep. 2025
With a loud blast of her horn MS Ambience pulls slowly out into the flow of the estuary in a cold winter rain.
—David Greig
september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for estuary
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Link’s flight simulators supercharging our pilot training with adaptive decision-making under pressure; medical residents refining teamwork and communication in simulated trauma bays; managers learning leadership through live project crises with shifting constraints and incomplete information.—
Joe Boylan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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The report noted that the bay’s famous seagrass beds were undergoing a massive die-off, accompanied by algal blooms that depleted oxygen levels, thereby killing fish in large numbers.—
Jerome Lorenz,
The Conversation,
14 Oct. 2025
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Bleary-eyed coverage that kicks off before sunrise in the States, with gusts off the firth and cut lines that can swallow a top 10 in an hour.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
9 July 2025
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On the distant horizon was a cluster of faint street lights, a small town hunkered on the far side of the firth.—
Douglas Stuart,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2020
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“Estuary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/estuary. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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