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Recent Examples of firth 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 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 Wide views across the Solway firth to Scotland provide a handy distraction. The Economist, 4 Dec. 2019 Gray and harbor seals are a common sight in this firth, or estuary, where several major rivers meet the North Sea. National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firth
Noun
  • Each bay can be filled with an SSD up to a maximum of 8TB.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • EMTs transfer and deliver patients in the busy ambulance bay at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
    Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Croatan spans 160,000 acres and includes pine forests, saltwater estuaries, bogs, and raised swamps.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Donal, a nightclub owner in Chicago obsessed with the blues, has resisted going back to the land of lochs for reasons that will become only somewhat clear over the course of the run time.
    Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The crannogs are on Loch Nell, a tranquil inland loch, and some argue they could have been constructed as solar observation sites.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Firth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firth. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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