littorals

plural of littoral

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Noun
  • India has some pretty successful efforts to protect the olive ridley sea turtle, a vulnerable species which nests on the country's long coastlines.
    Diaa Hadid, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Enjoyment at the waterfront America’s coastlines, shorelines, lakes and rivers are often prime destinations for vacationers, but access to them can be limited by private development, and parking and admission fees can be costly.
    Jeffrey C. Hallo, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Described as semi-autobiographical, the play follows a year in the life of college student Josh (Ben Hirschhorn), whose alcoholism has led him from theater school in New York to the shores of a reservoir in his Colorado hometown.
    Chad Jones, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Now, the decimation of the environment and indigenous people across the world, from the palm oil plantations of Indonesia to the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has reached the shores of Great Nicobar.
    M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Do not enter the water when authorities close beaches to swimmers and warn of dangerous rip currents.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Nea Styra is a small coastal town on the southern tip of Evia, Greece's second-largest island, known for its beaches, fishing harbor, and ferry link to the mainland town of Agia Marina in Attica.
    Shane Croucher John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The sports star shared another full-length shot of the couple — who currently reside in Oslo — with their arms around each other on the same white sands, while a third closer-up image showed the couple smiling and rubbing noses.
    Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Blue Apple Beach, Hart's trailblazing hotel and beach club, sits along the sands of Isla Tierra Bomba, just a twenty-minute boat ride from Cartagena.
    Carley Rojas Ávila, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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