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Recent Examples of surfing
When establishing criteria for purposes of the state surfing reserve designation, factors such as wave quality and consistency, surf culture and history, and environmental characteristics, and management priorities will be important.
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Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
7 Apr. 2026
And so Africans used surfing to understand how to ride waves ashore in these surf canoes.
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Outside Online,
27 Aug. 2025
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Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
7 Apr. 2026
And so Africans used surfing to understand how to ride waves ashore in these surf canoes.
—
Outside Online,
27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for surfing
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This is the cohort that grew up skipping lines, scanning QR codes, ordering from phones and treating friction as a brand failure.
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Those scanning the skies over the East River this summer may spot something unfamiliar — a cargo drone schlepping packages between the Downtown Skyport in lower Manhattan and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal just south of Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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It can be customized with shortcuts for browsing websites and can be fully customized with shortcuts and macros without the need to install special software.
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In an era where thousands of movies are available with a click, many collectors still enjoy the experience of browsing shelves and discovering titles in person.
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Some may also argue that battery life is one of the MacBook Neo strengths, but perusing the actual third-party, quantitative tests that have been published to date disproves that.
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In Le-Bois-Plage-en-Ré, O’Canailles is a great bar à manger for lunch, after perusing the nearby open-air market, or a casual dinner.
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The luxury lines Seabourn and Silversea both offer expedition cruising (on top of their traditional cruise products), and the luxury tour company Abercrombie & Kent also charters Ponant ships for expedition cruises to the polar regions.
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The Sooners lost their opening game of the SEC tournament in May, but have lost just once since, cruising through the NCAA tournament en route to the program's first title game appearance since 2022.
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“Surfing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surfing. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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