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roadsteads

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plural of roadstead

as in roads

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An application request filed with the city of Meridian shows plans for a 24,000-square-foot micro-hospital on South Rackham Way, near the northeast corner of Eagle and Overland roads, south of Interstate 84.

— Rose Evans July 24, Idaho Statesman, 24 July 2026
The late 2023 fire gutted the LaVista Road apartment complex, shut down nearby roads and affected more than 200 residents.

— Cassidy Alexander, AJC.com, 24 July 2026

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Ship traffic through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait slowed over the weekend after Houthi rebels attacked Saudi oil tankers and threatened additional strikes on vessels linked to Saudi ports, according to Saudi shipping data reviewed by Reuters.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 27 July 2026
The United States earlier this month resumed a naval blockade of Iranian ports, eliminating another one of the components agreed to in preliminary peace plan reached in June.

— Jay Stahl, USA Today, 26 July 2026

Definition of ports

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But Butch Cassidy Drive in Telluride is where one particular property sits today that, against all things predictable, harbors in its TV snug that very same historic pool-hall bar.

— Catherine Dunwoody, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Its ships have hundreds of rooms and suites—not thousands—and slip into harbors that megaships cannot reach, keeping shore days intimate enough that the market vendor, the guide, and the lunch that follows feel like part of the same long afternoon.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

Definition of harbors

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The site now features dedicated processing bays and automated digital X-ray inspection equipment that reduce inspection time and improve manufacturing throughput.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 July 2026
On their soft opening night, Willey thought the kids had more fun at the bays playing games than the adults did.

— Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 25 July 2026

Definition of bays

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Nicknamed the Emerald Coast, this land has miles of golden-sand beach on one side, mangrove estuaries, evergreen rainforest, and Sierra Madre mountains on the other.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026
Among the dishes is blue crab plucked from the water tableside, then served rillette-style using fat from the restaurant’s estuaries.

— Jamila Robinson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 June 2026

Definition of estuaries

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Its shallow draft allows access to narrow inlets and wildlife-rich fjords beyond the reach of larger ships.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
Today, Crater Lake National Park boasts the deepest lake in the country, at 1,943 feet, and one of the cleanest too, as there are no inlets or outlets to allow for contamination.

— Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026

Definition of inlets

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Nu Jazz put the effort in to really get underneath all these sounds, ripping out their guts and figuring out how to jam with the entrails.

— Sam Goldner, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026
The package of upgrades sounds as if it’ll be spread across both Hungary and Zandvoort, which is the first race after the summer shutdown in August.

— Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 22 July 2026

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