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seaboard

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as in seacoast

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Recent Examples of seaboard Add a day trip or two to see more of Oregon’s Pacific seaboard. — Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2026 In the 1700s, when West Africans were shackled and shipped to the South Carolina–Georgia seaboard, some were forced to work in rice paddies, in cotton fields, and on indigo plantations, where the moist climate resembled that of their homelands. — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026 These competing priorities continue to collide within the PJM regional grid, which covers a vast swath of the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina through Pennsylvania, extending westward all the way into Illinois. — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Here in the United States, El Niños typically result in wetter, warmer winters for the West Coast and a milder hurricane season for the Atlantic seaboard. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for seaboard

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Noun

Located on the seacoast of New Hampshire, Hampton Falls is about 45 miles north of Boston.

— Matt Schooley, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Outside, the landscape is a familiar tapestry of yellowing grasses, eucalyptus, oaks, and waves from a west-facing seacoast.

— Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 28 July 2026

Definition of seacoast

Noun

At least two people were killed and eight injured in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on Saudi Arabia's east coast Wednesday, according to Saudi state media.

— Lee Ying Shan,Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026
As king tides peak along the South Florida coast, municipal officials and local residents are preparing for potentially widespread flooding as heavy rain and strong onshore winds threaten the region over the coming days.

— Ted Scouten, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of coast

Noun

Though a seashore and park can be different in some respects, two laws dating to the 1970s direct the National Park Service to manage and regulate parks and seashores using the same standards.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Long after all humans have vanished from our planet, some extragalactic visitors might land gently on an empty seashore, throw a bucket into the sea and haul up samples of bacteria.

— Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of seashore

Noun

Holed up in Diane Taverner’s (Kristin Scott Thomas) seaside cottage and the surrounding beach, the Horses wage war against the dueling factions, with onetime faithful Dog Flyte (Ruth Bradley) taking a bullet on the beach.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
Southwold is one of Britain’s affluent seaside getaway towns, filled with Range Rovers and sunburned Londoners.

— Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of seaside

Noun

As a super El Niño intensifies in the Pacific Ocean, coastal beach erosion is devastating Southern California and beyond.

— Devika Rao, TheWeek, 23 Oct. 2026
You may be forgiven for anticipating a potboiler climax when a lush hideaway with a private beach is concerned, and what occurs there is indeed juicy.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of beach

Noun

Their roots knit the coastline together, sheltering marine life and fish and absorbing carbon emissions.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
California has long prided itself as a regulatory trailblazer, whether to preserve its coastline, reduce air pollution, protect gig workers, ensure data privacy or battle climate change.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

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
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

— Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021

Definition of coastland

Noun

Inside the guest rooms, large picture windows frame the shoreline.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
Hannah Damon, director of outreach and administration at Camp Amnicon Adventures and Retreats in South Range, Wisconsin, made the discovery while spending time with her son along the camp's sandy shoreline.

— Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026

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