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Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
The carrier strike group, which brought roughly 5,700 additional service members, joined three destroyers and three littoral combat ships that were already in the region.
—Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022
Now, in a distracted world, China proudly touts the efficiency of its surveillance state while continuing to build up its military and pursue its ambitious efforts to gain a strategic advantage along the Asian littoral.
—Lewis Libby, National Review, 6 May 2021
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Adjective
Other destroyers were positioned in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz, while three littoral combat ships were in the Persian Gulf.
—Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
The carrier strike group, which brought roughly 5,700 additional service members, joined three destroyers and three littoral combat ships that were already in the region.
—Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
Anyone who went to the east African littoral could choose to become Swahili, and many did.
—John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022
Now, in a distracted world, China proudly touts the efficiency of its surveillance state while continuing to build up its military and pursue its ambitious efforts to gain a strategic advantage along the Asian littoral.
—Lewis Libby, National Review, 6 May 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for littoral
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Key Takeaways Wilmington’s coastal North Carolina location attracts movie makers and vacationers with mild temperatures, beaches, and riverfront scenery.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2026
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Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported six people were killed Sunday by a strike in Maaroub village near the coastal city of Tyre.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The incident took place in La Gomera, one of the eight islands that make up the Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of Africa.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
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There is something special about seeing Springsteen at the Forum, which has to nearly feel as much like a home base at this point as anywhere in home territory on the east coast.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Though not the biggest members of the tuna tribe, blackfin tuna are a big deal for South Florida anglers in the spring, as blackfins flood offshore waters from the Florida Keys up along the Atlantic coast to Palm Beach.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
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The hope is a new administration more favorable to offshore wind will be in place by the time turbines are ready to touch federal waters.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The sheriff's office shared a photo of M-119, which travels along the Lake Michigan shoreline, with part of the road completely gone.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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This lake house retreat features a meandering layout that takes in a wide breadth of the shoreline.—
Patricia Shannon,
Better Homes & Gardens,
12 Apr. 2026
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Laguna Beach has over 30 beaches and coves along its seven miles of coastline.—
Acacia Gabriel,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Apr. 2026
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Federal officials on Thursday extended the public comment period for a study evaluating whether portions of the Los Angeles coastline, including popular beaches in Santa Monica and Venice, could be designated as part of the National Park System.—
City News Service,
Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Away from the Atlantic seaboard, Cincinnati was only eclipsed by New Orleans, another busy trading hub connected by the nation’s riverboats.—
Alexander Coolidge,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Summer heat headed to Maryland next week A large dome of high pressure along the eastern seaboard will send temperatures soaring to summer-time levels next week.—
Cutter Martin,
CBS News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.—
Silvia Marchetti,
CNN,
8 Oct. 2022
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Reparations have been a periodic topic of debate since the waning days of the Civil War, when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule to formerly enslaved families in a swath of confiscated Southern coastland.—
Lee Hawkins and Douglas Belkin,
WSJ,
25 Mar. 2022
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Despite this drop in visitors, 26 of the 433 sites in the NPS system—which includes national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, recreation areas, preserves, and seashores—broke all-time records for visitation.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
13 Mar. 2026
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Yet, violence on the pickleball courts happened at a genteel country club in a gated community in Port Orange, Florida, a seashore community of some 66,000 residents along the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the spring break mecca, Daytona Beach.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2026
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