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Recent Examples of shoreline
The next day, her body was retrieved from the shoreline of Knight Lake, a few miles from the store.
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
Continue onto the Frankton Track, an easygoing shoreline route (this portion is open while much of the track is closed for infrastructure upgrades in 2026).
—New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
With 40 miles of undeveloped shoreline, visitors can hike, explore, boat, camp, and enjoy the sandy beaches.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
Days earlier, at Makapuu Beach on the eastern shoreline of Oahu, the water glimmered with an unusual greenish tint, prompting people to head to beaches down the road where the water seemed clearer.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
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Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
Continue onto the Frankton Track, an easygoing shoreline route (this portion is open while much of the track is closed for infrastructure upgrades in 2026).
—New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
With 40 miles of undeveloped shoreline, visitors can hike, explore, boat, camp, and enjoy the sandy beaches.
—Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 2 Apr. 2026
Days earlier, at Makapuu Beach on the eastern shoreline of Oahu, the water glimmered with an unusual greenish tint, prompting people to head to beaches down the road where the water seemed clearer.
—Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoreline
Noun
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For example, figures such as Jared Kushner have talked about Gaza’s coastline in terms of its future economic value.—
Maliha Rahman,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Apr. 2026
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Temperatures will be warmer inland and cooler on the coastline, but will still be above average, Garch said.—
Elainie Colton,
The Orlando Sentinel,
4 Apr. 2026
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The incident took place in La Gomera, one of the eight islands that make up the Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of Africa.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
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There is something special about seeing Springsteen at the Forum, which has to nearly feel as much like a home base at this point as anywhere in home territory on the east coast.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
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The tactic has become more popular with smugglers as police on the beaches try to thwart crossings by puncturing the rafts that groups of migrants have to inflate and carry to the water.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Other amenities include a lakeside swimming beach and plenty of campsites.—
Joie Probst,
Midwest Living,
10 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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This basic, 20-room boutique property is the perfect spot for walking to island restaurants, embarking on excursions, and enjoying sunsets from the oversized beachfront complete with a bar and restaurant.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Apr. 2026
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Food and drink There are several on-site restaurants, including the casual open-air Beach Tree, the beachfront 'Ulu with an adjacent sushi lounge, NOIO, Miller & Lux, and Residents’ Beach House.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 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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“Shoreline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoreline. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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