as in pillars
a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else
the carpenter placed a shore underneath the sagging roof of the porch
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Recent Examples of shores
More than 500 miles of coastline line the city’s shores, and when the temperatures creep up, many city dwellers head to the public beaches that line the coast.
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Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 June 2026
But there is a reason millions want to live here, and many risk their lives to try to reach our shores.
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Brian Sullivan,
CNBC,
24 June 2026
It is generally admitted that Orlando’s capitol building should be located on the shores of a lake.
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Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2026
For a beach vacation, the Algarve region offers a slower, resort-town atmosphere with sandy shores and picturesque clifftop views.
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Morgan Evans,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
Though net migration is down, many are angered by migrants entering the country illegally — specifically the sight of people, often escaping war zones such as Afghanistan and Sudan, arriving on British shores in inflatable boats after making the dangerous journey across the English Channel.
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ABC News,
21 June 2026
Grand Lake sits at an elevation of 8,369 feet on the shores of the eponymous lake, which also happens to be the largest natural lake in the state.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
21 June 2026
While the small island, which only has one airport and no stoplights, has a year-round population of less than 15,000 people, the summer tourist season brings tens of thousands to its shores.
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Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
The sandy shores are combed for seaweed and trash nightly, which earned the town a Blue Wave certification.
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Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
Chloe Schama,
Vogue,
24 June 2026
But there is a reason millions want to live here, and many risk their lives to try to reach our shores.
—
Brian Sullivan,
CNBC,
24 June 2026
It is generally admitted that Orlando’s capitol building should be located on the shores of a lake.
—
Orlando Sentinel Staff,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2026
For a beach vacation, the Algarve region offers a slower, resort-town atmosphere with sandy shores and picturesque clifftop views.
—
Morgan Evans,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 June 2026
Though net migration is down, many are angered by migrants entering the country illegally — specifically the sight of people, often escaping war zones such as Afghanistan and Sudan, arriving on British shores in inflatable boats after making the dangerous journey across the English Channel.
—
ABC News,
21 June 2026
Grand Lake sits at an elevation of 8,369 feet on the shores of the eponymous lake, which also happens to be the largest natural lake in the state.
—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
21 June 2026
While the small island, which only has one airport and no stoplights, has a year-round population of less than 15,000 people, the summer tourist season brings tens of thousands to its shores.
—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
21 June 2026
The sandy shores are combed for seaweed and trash nightly, which earned the town a Blue Wave certification.
—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
17 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shores
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Brick pillars are embedded with bronze plaques listing the players and manager from each of the franchise’s three World Series championship teams.
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Personalized treatments are built around three pillars—energetic renewal, conscious longevity, and stress management—and integrated with the landscape and architecture of the property and the regional cuisine.
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Rubber reinforcements also line the toe, running into a sole unit with a moderate amount of tread that should carry its wearer from a trail to a body of water.
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In the first weeks of the war, the Syrian military sent reinforcements to the border with Lebanon, which officials said aimed to stop cross-border weapons smuggling or any spillover of the conflict.
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At least seven of those winners started charitable foundations, and all nine have made significant gifts to local causes.
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Video on Venezuelan state television showed buildings missing facades, tilted on their foundations.
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On the other were calls to shift resources away from policing and toward social supports and services.
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Build office- and home-based supports that make systems flexible enough to let their strengths show.
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Given all the other economic and geopolitical uncertainty in the world, this is perhaps not the best time to assume rapid and significant change in the underpinnings of how the central bank has worked has no risk.
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Moving on to the underpinnings.
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Researchers have been concerned that without their icy buttresses, these walls could collapse.
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Three setbacks provide space for landscaped terraces, and at these floors, the structural columns slope inward, becoming tall buttresses that reintegrate into the latticework.
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Clinicians say patients are seeing shorter hospital stays, less time under anesthesia and a potentially lower risk of complications with the approach.
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Facility dogs are trained to be more goal-oriented, helping kids reach medical goals that impact their healing, enabling them to get home from inpatient stays.
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Cerebras is, however, facing pressure to open more data centers, as are cloud infrastructure providers, while public opposition mounts and permitting processes can drag on.
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Pictured above, the hardworking AFP shooter Henry Nicholls produces yet another fine portrait in his shot of a young handicapper luxuriating in the Zenlike smoke-wreathed focus required to select just the perfect and perfectly-priced mounts to back in the next race.
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“Shores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shores. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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