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roadsteads

noun

plural of roadstead

as in roads

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Brand-new roads in South Florida are often designed to handle 7 or so inches of rain in a day.

— Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2026
The other five victims died in crashes involving vehicles used to block roads.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of roads

Noun

Aranui’s ground game in the Marquesas is unmatched—the company often keeps equipment like e-bikes or vehicles in some of the ports to support excursions.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Nov. 2026
Nor does a status quo allow countries like Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain to import goods to their ports.

— Aya Batrawy, NPR, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of ports

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The program uses a multi-gear fish-surveillance strategy to detect certain non-native species in the harbors, rivers, and embayments of the Great Lakes.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Nov. 2026
It’s being used to help balance power grids, manage ships and harbors, and write hospital patient records.

— Shahnaz Bashir, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of harbors

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With outsize interest in this small country, its sound stages are frequently full, and filmmakers say there is often a run on everything from lenses to edit bays to left-driving cars.

— Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026
Farther south, head to the seaside village of La Parguera, a short boat ride from one of the island's three bioluminescent bays.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of bays

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In North Carolina alone, 11,000 miles (17,702 kilometers) of canals drain peatlands before the water empties into coastal estuaries, Richardson said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
Rising Tide Explorers leads ecotours of the mangrove islands, estuaries, and marshes that surround Marco Island.

— Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of estuaries

Noun

Shallow gullies and narrow inlets along the cove’s limestone edges shelter schools of sergeant majors, wrasses, and other reef fish.

— Sarah Bruning, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2026
Ponds, inlets, and outfalls that are not maintained do not perform as designed, and deferred maintenance is the most common reason a system that looks adequate on paper floods in practice.

— Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of inlets

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That lack of definition extends to the sound of the record, which transforms hyperactively from track to track, echoing the sounds of many other artists without ever quite establishing a distinct profile.

— Aimee Cliff, Pitchfork, 11 Nov. 2026
The brothers shared the recording with Italian cardiologist Achille Dogliotti, whose examination reportedly led him to conclude that the sounds were consistent with strained breathing and an elevated human heartbeat.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 10 Nov. 2026

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