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Recent Examples of inlet
The three boats were almost home, sailing the last few dozen miles before disappearing into Maine’s unchartable maze of inlets and bays.
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Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
Our group, Save the Inlet, was formed to protect the inlet from this mega-project and grows out the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, which has spent the last 20 years fighting to get the city to live up to its promises in the 2005 rezoning.
—Katherine Thompson, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
Once our fishing guide, Scott Allen, pulled up, the three of us climbed into his ATV to head to one of his six shacks on the frozen inlet.
—Robert Annis, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026
Small craft should exercise caution near inlets due to incoming long-period swells.
—Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
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Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
Our group, Save the Inlet, was formed to protect the inlet from this mega-project and grows out the Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, which has spent the last 20 years fighting to get the city to live up to its promises in the 2005 rezoning.
—Katherine Thompson, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2026
Once our fishing guide, Scott Allen, pulled up, the three of us climbed into his ATV to head to one of his six shacks on the frozen inlet.
—Robert Annis, Outside, 24 Feb. 2026
Small craft should exercise caution near inlets due to incoming long-period swells.
—Garfield Hylton, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inlet
Noun
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Other hospitality brands have followed suit, turning the larger Peninsula Papagayo area and Playa Penca, just across the bay, into a bona fide luxury enclave.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Mar. 2026
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Others, like the ribbon weed that grows in the bays of Gathaagudu, Australia, poke their flowers from tiny spikes atop leafless stems.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But the estuary, which had been silting up since the 11th century, had different ideas.—
Rob Crossan,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Mar. 2026
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The team tethered the crustaceans to posts at varying times of the year and at varying depths of Maryland’s Rhode River, a tidal estuary in Chesapeake Bay.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Ships with barely 100 cabins that can access coves and fishing villages no megaship can touch.—
Elycia Rubin,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Mar. 2026
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Bái Tử Long Bay has the same towering limestone islands and karst formations, caves, hidden coves, and floating fishing villages, but with a quieter, more quaint and intimate feel.—
Jasmine Ting,
Condé Nast Traveler,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Inlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inlet. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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