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roadsteads

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plural of roadstead

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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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Iran has, in turn, expanded its target list across seven countries in the region, and official media outlets have suggested that major ports in Gulf Arab states may soon be added.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
Thousands of trucks have also been ferrying crude from Iraq to Syrian ports on the Mediterranean coast.

— Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 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 Hotel Due Mari, a 17th-century aristocratic villa formerly owned by the marquesses of Bolasco, sits between Sestri’s two bays.

— Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Flexible payload options Instead of dedicating Thunder to a single role, Anduril built the aircraft around interchangeable payload bays.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 July 2026

Definition of bays

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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
Blue-green algae, known as cyanobacteria, naturally occur in inland waters, estuaries and the sea.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 18 June 2026

Definition of estuaries

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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
Marine life concentrates most densely in the shallowest waters of this continental shelf, 100 feet deep or less, in reefs, lagoons, and coastal inlets where a person can swim and scuba dive without specialized gear.

— Bill Gourgey, Popular Science, 2 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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