tidewater

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Recent Examples of tidewater This, of course, was all integrated into Wright’s classic style: The home is made from brick and red tidewater cypress, with concrete floors and plaster ceilings. Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025 With construction permits approved and development underway, the Alaska LNG Pipeline will connect the North Slope's substantial reserves—estimated at 35 trillion cubic feet—to tidewater, facilitating shipments across the Pacific. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025 In 1954, the architect completed designs for a Usonian home constructed from local sandstone and imported tidewater red cypress, with a copper roof. Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025 After the desalination process is finished, highly concentrated brine and chemical waste is released into offshore tidewaters, wreaking havoc with sensitive coastal ecosystems. Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tidewater
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Noun
  • An abundance of water and rich bottomland drew them to the area.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 July 2025
  • Most biologists think that loss of bottomland forest and associated land clearing for agriculture were the main reasons.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Mexico City — The governments of Mexico and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to fund and expedite several wastewater treatment projects in the Tijuana River basin.
    Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • By taking down part of the old dike and building a new one farther back, the project has given the river some breathing room, expanding the floodplain.
    Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Fall-run Chinook salmon have adapted to thrive in the floodplains that used to sweep through the Sacramento Valley.
    Calista Oetama, Sacbee.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Set to a haunting score by the director’s brother Giorgi, this melancholic mystery presents Georgia’s open plains and mountain regions in alien, oneiric contexts.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • There are also three rooftop terraces, with 360-degree views across the Alentejo plains.
    Nicole Trilivas, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Designed with a V-neck, subtly cuffed sleeves, and textured horizontal seams, the dress can easily be dressed up with a jacket and flats or paired with a baseball cap and sandals for a more casual look.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Try them with a crisp white shirt and flats for a smart travel-day look.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Getting permission on a field here will be really tough (maybe impossible), however Haugen says that there are good opportunities for freelance hunting in rivers and sloughs throughout the valley, where ducks roost and loaf.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The Taurus-Littrow valley is littered with massive boulders scattered across steep slopes.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Out in the wild, the queen-of-the-prairie grows in moist black soil prairies and meadows, fens, seeps and springs.
    Sheryl DeVore, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Saving a satyr The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen, and the Mitchell’s satyr is only found in these rare habitats that take thousands of years to develop.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 31 Dec. 2024

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“Tidewater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidewater. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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