saltwater

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Recent Examples of saltwater The wooden sculpture, near the public, saltwater Colman Pool, is one of five trolls in the Greater Seattle area designed by the Danish artist Thomas Dambo to celebrate both Scandinavian and Native American traditions. Mike Seely, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2024 Even saltwater wood ducks saw the flaws: too short-lived, way too jagged. Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025 There are ocean gastropods found in the deep sea, saltwater gastropods on coral reefs, freshwater gastropods in lakes, ponds and rivers, and even gastropods that live entirely on land or in tropical rainforests, according to Britannica. Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025 Unlike other moray eels that are brightly colored and live in primarily saltwater environments, Hades’ snake moray can be found in estuaries across southern Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, southern Java, and Fiji. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for saltwater
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Adjective
  • This includes innovations such as perovskite solar cells, deepwater wind turbines, nuclear small modular reactors and molten salt reactors.
    Dale Fickett, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Helmed by fifth-generation fishmonger Vinny Milburn, the store stocks oysters from North Haven, rare deepwater shrimp from Montauk, and steelhead trout from the Hudson Valley — all subject to seasonality and availability.
    Maria Yagoda, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The practice of deep-sea mining involves using machinery to remove minerals and metals — such as cobalt, nickel, copper and manganese — from the seabed.
    Sam Meredith, CNBC, 15 May 2025
  • The new study suggests, however, that records of ancient tsunamis may be found in the form of amber and other terrestrial material deposited in deep-sea sediments.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2025
Adjective
  • The cloud may disorient and impair the vision of marine life that depend on sight to navigate or hunt for prey—or smother others.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2025
  • These strands, which conduct information as pulses of light, have long been vulnerable to accidental damage by fishing trawlers and curious marine predators; more recently, there are fears that they’ve been targeted by saboteurs in the Baltic and the Taiwan Strait.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Adjective
  • Norfolk — the largest naval base in the world located in Portsmouth, Virginia — already floods 10 times a year because of elevated sea levels.
    Bella Kubach, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 May 2025
  • This past week, a tragic accident happened when the Mexican Navy’s training ship, Cuauhtémoc, crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, claiming the lives of a young naval cadet and a sailor while also leaving others seriously injured.
    Eric Adams, New York Daily News, 22 May 2025

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“Saltwater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saltwater. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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