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Recent Examples of reef
Officials said the buoys would serve as a visual boundary for boaters and help protect swimmers and divers, especially near Hollywood's artificial reef, which begins about 10 yards from shore.
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Abby Dodge, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
But perhaps the best part of this respite is its proximity to the country’s lush rainforests, ancient Mayan ruins, and sprawling coral-reef system.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Just seven days’ exposure to shipping noise weakens the immune systems of blue mussels; but a process called acoustic enrichment, broadcasting the sound of a healthy reef, can attract marine life back to a bleached one, restitching the acoustic fabric of an entire ecosystem.
—Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
In 2024, a New Zealand naval vessel grounded on a reef near Samoa caught fire and sank, requiring evacuation of all crew, according to a New Zealand Defense Force inquiry.
—Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
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Abby Dodge, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
But perhaps the best part of this respite is its proximity to the country’s lush rainforests, ancient Mayan ruins, and sprawling coral-reef system.
—Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 15 Apr. 2026
Just seven days’ exposure to shipping noise weakens the immune systems of blue mussels; but a process called acoustic enrichment, broadcasting the sound of a healthy reef, can attract marine life back to a bleached one, restitching the acoustic fabric of an entire ecosystem.
—Literary Hub, 9 Apr. 2026
In 2024, a New Zealand naval vessel grounded on a reef near Samoa caught fire and sank, requiring evacuation of all crew, according to a New Zealand Defense Force inquiry.
—Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reef
Noun
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McMahon had a career’s worth of lessons in the virtues of bombast, and also in the dangers of it.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Although the moody, groovy songs on her 1999 debut, No Angel, seemed to hint at danger or allude to Dido’s former life as a teenage wild child, Life for Rent was all middle-class Islington status quo.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The funds will be used to make Americans with Disabilities Act improvements on roads and walkways, such as tactile paving surfaces designed to alert the visually impaired about hazards such as road crossings and drop-offs.—
Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2026
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None of the approvals made this week includes hazard mitigation funding, a once-typical add on to disaster declaration support that helped communities build back with more resilience.—
Gabriela Aoun Angueira,
Fortune,
11 Apr. 2026
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That includes promoting undercover videos showing the perils of factory farming, sometimes with narrators or amplifiers like Joaquin Phoenix, Alicia Silverstone, Pamela Anderson and Woody Harrelson.—
Erik Hayden,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Apr. 2026
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Vineyard Wind is now in peril after the firm filed a lawsuit against the wind farm’s contractor, GE Vernova, which is threatening to back out of the massive project over a dispute about costs.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
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If that’s true, the entire psychological burden of the piece has been distilled into that one strained digit.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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These parasites reveal what sanitation, disease burden, and population health were really like in this region of the Roman Empire, known for its ingenuity and innovation, but sometimes, public health might not be up to par.—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Reef.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reef. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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