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Recent Examples of seaboard
Barred owls, which are native to the eastern seaboard but only appeared west of the Mississippi in the early 1900s, are classified as invasive to the West and Northwest.
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Owen Clarke, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
Several states along the East Coast have been issued warnings by the National Weather Service (NWS), after a nor’easter traversed the eastern seaboard this weekend bringing with it the threat of strong wind and heavy rain.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Beaches all along the Eastern seaboard will be plagued by life-threatening rip currents and large swells for much of next week because of Humberto spinning offshore and future Imelda.
—Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Hurricane Erin is moving closer to the Eastern seaboard, bringing dangerous rip currents and flood risks that have prompted evacuation orders and states of emergency in two North Carolina counties.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
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Owen Clarke, Outside, 3 Nov. 2025
Several states along the East Coast have been issued warnings by the National Weather Service (NWS), after a nor’easter traversed the eastern seaboard this weekend bringing with it the threat of strong wind and heavy rain.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Beaches all along the Eastern seaboard will be plagued by life-threatening rip currents and large swells for much of next week because of Humberto spinning offshore and future Imelda.
—Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Hurricane Erin is moving closer to the Eastern seaboard, bringing dangerous rip currents and flood risks that have prompted evacuation orders and states of emergency in two North Carolina counties.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 19 Aug. 2025
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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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Urban uprisings and rebellions by Blacks stretched from coast to coast.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Feb. 2026
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In August 2025, Amtrak revived its Mardi Gras Service, connecting New Orleans and Mobile –the first time the train has run since Hurricane Katrina decimated the Gulf coast in 2005.—
Kara Newman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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In fact, your desire to expand your perception of the world, the universe and of your purpose has likely been shifting like the sands of the beach, spinning on the foamy seashore.—
Kyle Thomas,
PEOPLE,
4 Jan. 2026
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The National Park Service also manages nearly 400 other areas designated for their national significance as battlefields, military or historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, monuments, parkways, recreation areas, trails, rivers and preserves.—
Jeffrey C. Hallo,
The Conversation,
4 Sep. 2025
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The women find refuge in a convent and, ultimately, in a seaside town where some measure of peace awaits them.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Glimmering seaside vistas and views of rolling foothills and rice paddies pass by as the train whisks through Central Vietnam’s impossibly green countryside.—
Jessica Puckett,
Condé Nast Traveler,
5 Feb. 2026
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What & Why Rhode Island digs into this curious bit of beach trivia.—
Kathleen Hill,
The Providence Journal,
7 Feb. 2026
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The Chicago Park District dispatched crews to clear the beaches and ran out of places to put the foul flotsam.—
Theodore J. Karamanski,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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The federal agency is embarking on the Los Angeles Coastal Area Special Resource Study, which focuses on the coastline and adjacent areas along Santa Monica Bay from Will Rogers State Beach to Torrance Beach, including areas around Ballona Creek, as well as San Pedro.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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This week, caretakers released the bird once more and stood on the beach as the western snowy plover took flight over waves that crashed against the sandy coastline.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Feb. 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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Elsewhere along the beach, Grey walked along the shoreline as waves broke at her feet.—
Danielle Minnetian,
FOXNews.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Over centuries, silt gradually pushed the shoreline further away, contributing to Ephesus’ abandonment by the time of the Ottoman era in the 15th century.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Seaboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seaboard. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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