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Recent Examples of littoral
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
In essence these are littoral mansions.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
The historical lands of the Swahili are on east Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral.
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John M. Mugane,
Quartz,
5 Apr. 2022
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Adjective
The emerging ability of sea drones to detect and disable sea mines and spot submarines was supposed to be a core feature of Navy littoral combat ships.
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Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
In essence these are littoral mansions.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
Hailing from the peninsula’s steppe interior, mountainous east, and Black Sea littoral, this population tended to be devoutly Muslim and, for the most part, had never been fully at ease with the republic’s secularist founding project.
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Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
The historical lands of the Swahili are on east Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral.
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John M. Mugane,
Quartz,
5 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for littoral
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The camaraderie was evident on the ground here in La Guaira, the coastal city where quake damage was most severe, collapsing dozens of buildings.
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The final leg into Southern California passes coastal vistas before slowly transitioning into suburban neighborhoods and cityscapes.
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Since then, the United States has expanded from 13 colonies along the Atlantic coast to 50 states stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and beyond.
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Cape Verde, an island nation off the west coast of Africa that qualified for the World Cup for the first time this year, is scheduled to face Argentina tomorrow in the knockout stage of the tournament.
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Taken together, these actions suggest the IRS is becoming progressively less willing to offer administrative safe harbors for offshore compliance.
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It was detonated by remote control from an offshore yacht following a signal by one of the men watching the site.
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Officials said the search operations, conducted by multiple agencies, were focused on the water and shoreline.
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Guests had an exclusive first look at the new Watermoc while spending the day competing in beachside activities including capture the flag, beach volleyball, and paddle relay races before gathering at sunset as Kaytranada took over the shoreline.
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The Carrington Estate owns seven kilometers of private white-sand coastline on the natural Karikari Peninsula, the traditional hunting and gathering grounds of the Ngati Kahu tribe.
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This technology has global implications well beyond Florida’s coastline.
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These competing priorities continue to collide within the PJM regional grid, which covers a vast swath of the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina through Pennsylvania, extending westward all the way into Illinois.
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Here in the United States, El Niños typically result in wetter, warmer winters for the West Coast and a milder hurricane season for the Atlantic seaboard.
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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.
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The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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The painting shows a castle atop a giant, floating rock, hanging before a partly cloudy sky over a seashore, and has resided at the museum since 1985.
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Also, seashore rangers will lead shark and seal walks several times each week.
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“Littoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littoral. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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