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Recent Examples of loughAlong with a grassy walled garden, an arboretum, the property has nearly three miles of lough frontage and shooting rights across a total of 3,000 acres.—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2025 On the shores of Belfast's lough, The Culloden Estate and Spa is a serene escape from the buzzy city scene.—Ciara McQuillan, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2022
At its northern end, where the creek meets the lake, the trail connects with the Erie Canalway Trail, which is part of the 750-mile Empire State Trail network, opening up even more routes to explore.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Oct. 2025
The peaceful atmosphere became more excited when a flood of thousands more demonstrators arrived to the lake’s amphitheater, having marched from Wilma Chan Park a half-mile away.
Few among us would hesitate to wade into a pond to save a drowning child.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Ahead of the third season — which premiered in October 2025 — The Diplomat has already been renewed for a fourth season, promising a whole new advent of drama across both sides of the pond.
What with its rippling mountains, meditative lochs, and misty woodlands, Scotland’s moody atmosphere hits its stride in the cooler seasons.
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Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
12 Oct. 2025
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.
Bayobab’s headquarters in Côte d’Ivoire lies just north of Abidjan’s long lagoon, in a hilly neighborhood perversely called Plateau.
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Samanth Subramanian,
The Dial,
14 Oct. 2025
The waterfront would be transformed into a large marina, with piers and floating docks off the shore by the old Flipper Dolphin lagoon theater and wrapping around most of the waterfront, along with racks for storing smaller boats on land and heavy machinery depositing them in the water as needed.
And now there’s a refillable reservoir for the drugs that can be implanted in the eye.
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Liz Szabo,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
As of Monday morning, most major reservoirs in California were performing above average for this time of year, according to a graphic from the California DWR.
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