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Recent Examples of seaboard
Trump has fought tooth and nail in court to suspend wind energy projects that are fully permitted, under contract and under construction across the eastern seaboard.
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Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Fujairah, one of the world's top hubs for storing crude and fuels, is located on the eastern seaboard of the UAE and serves as a key shipping hub for the wider region.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
On March 22 Samoset returned again, this time with Squanto, the only other Native American on the Eastern seaboard who spoke English.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
Orlando led the way among Florida airports amid the more than 6,000 flights canceled nationwide as heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions slam the northeastern seaboard.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
Fujairah, one of the world's top hubs for storing crude and fuels, is located on the eastern seaboard of the UAE and serves as a key shipping hub for the wider region.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2026
On March 22 Samoset returned again, this time with Squanto, the only other Native American on the Eastern seaboard who spoke English.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Mar. 2026
Orlando led the way among Florida airports amid the more than 6,000 flights canceled nationwide as heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions slam the northeastern seaboard.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seaboard
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Filming pine trees on Maine’s seacoast and palmettos off Charleston left us with stark reminders of North America’s botanical diversity as well as its vastness.—
Sarah Botstein,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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North Korea has opened a splashy resort on its eastern seacoast called Wonsan Kalma Coastal Tourist Area, featuring some 400 buildings.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
7 July 2025
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Angola, on the southwest coast of Africa, was considered to be the epicenter of the transatlantic slave trade as a Portuguese colony.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Apr. 2026
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Although it was affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton, Siesta Key—part of a string of islets along Florida’s southwest coast—is well on its way to recovery.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2026
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Despite this drop in visitors, 26 of the 433 sites in the NPS system—which includes national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, recreation areas, preserves, and seashores—broke all-time records for visitation.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
13 Mar. 2026
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Yet, violence on the pickleball courts happened at a genteel country club in a gated community in Port Orange, Florida, a seashore community of some 66,000 residents along the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the spring break mecca, Daytona Beach.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2026
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These two exhibits are the latest ones envisioned for the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, each aiming to represent the region’s seaside culture.—
Megan Vaz,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2026
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With a juicy contract from a top publisher in hand, Oliver travels with the couple to a seaside mansion where his muse, singer and actress Margot Bell (Aja Alcazar), is due to perform in a concert opposite Victor Pratt (Andrés Enriquez), self-described as Broadway’s favorite baritone.—
Emily McClanathan,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Apr. 2026
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People revel in the nostalgia of ten or twenty or thirty years ago by digging up old photos and posting them—photos from birthday parties or career milestones or from a moment spent sitting under the final sparks of daylight on a beach.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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The tradition has carried on, however, as an unsanctioned event on the beach for decades, and has primarily been marketed to HBCU students in the southeast.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
17 Apr. 2026
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Newsom, no longer a candidate for public office in California, and perhaps speaking to a national audience, even threw some shade on an agency that’s widely viewed as having kept much of the state’s 840-mile coastline comparatively pristine for the past 50 years.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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Authorities have stepped up maritime enforcement along the northern coastline in response to recurring arrivals.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.—
Silvia Marchetti,
CNN,
8 Oct. 2022
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Reparations have been a periodic topic of debate since the waning days of the Civil War, when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule to formerly enslaved families in a swath of confiscated Southern coastland.—
Lee Hawkins and Douglas Belkin,
WSJ,
25 Mar. 2022
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The coastal shelf is an improvement on the shoreline data in several ways, according to the new study.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2026
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Two men were found guilty Saturday night in the murder of a Highland Park man, who was beaten to death in a 2022 fight along the Lake Michigan shoreline.—
Clifford Ward,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Seaboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seaboard. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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