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Recent Examples of shoreline
The park flanks a tiny stretch of Table Rock Lake, a serpentine reservoir with more than 745 miles of shoreline.
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Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
The helicopter was operated by Airborne Aviation, which does sightseeing tours of Kauai’s canyons, shoreline and waterfalls.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Jekyll Island, Georgia This barrier island boasts 10 miles of unspoiled shoreline, with each beach different from the next.
—Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 17 Apr. 2026
The city of Hollywood is considering adding buoys along its shoreline in a move that officials say would improve safety, but one that is raising concerns among some divers and swimmers.
—Abby Dodge, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
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Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 17 Apr. 2026
The helicopter was operated by Airborne Aviation, which does sightseeing tours of Kauai’s canyons, shoreline and waterfalls.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Jekyll Island, Georgia This barrier island boasts 10 miles of unspoiled shoreline, with each beach different from the next.
—Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 17 Apr. 2026
The city of Hollywood is considering adding buoys along its shoreline in a move that officials say would improve safety, but one that is raising concerns among some divers and swimmers.
—Abby Dodge, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoreline
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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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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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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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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 beachfront spread comes up for sale as demand across the Cayman Islands reportedly remains strong.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
15 Apr. 2026
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The gorgeous open-air dining space and spacious, shady beachfront invites guests to spread out all day long.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
15 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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