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Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Glacier Bay National Park, in southeast Alaska, is a jaw-dropping wilderness where massive tidewater glaciers calve into icy waters and humpback whales surface with breathtaking grace.
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The Potomac, one of the good Eastern black-bass rivers, offers some 400 miles of fair-to-excellent fishing-mostly smallmouths upstream from Great Falls on the outskirts of Washington, D. C., and largemouths in the tidewater downstream.
—Arthur Grahame, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025
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
The Potomac River stretches for 380 miles and four states, starting in the Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia and following into the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2025
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The Potomac, one of the good Eastern black-bass rivers, offers some 400 miles of fair-to-excellent fishing-mostly smallmouths upstream from Great Falls on the outskirts of Washington, D. C., and largemouths in the tidewater downstream.
—Arthur Grahame, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025
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
The Potomac River stretches for 380 miles and four states, starting in the Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia and following into the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2025
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Noun
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Go for a Hike at Woodlands Conservancy Hike through one of the region’s last remaining stands of bottomland hardwood forest at the Woodlands Preserve.—
Kristy Christiansen,
Southern Living,
25 Dec. 2025
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Whitmer, in November 2020, sent notice of her intention to revoke the state's 1953 easement with the company allowing the pipelines underwater on the Straits of Mackinac bottomlands.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
17 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Snow shortfalls reached record territory across the mountains as drought in the Colorado River basin has only intensified.—
Naema Ahmed,
Washington Post,
27 Feb. 2026
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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In the Sentinel-2 satellites' orbital view, Doñana's wetlands appear as shifting patches of dark blue and violet, signatures of shallow water spread across the park's floodplain.—
Samantha Mathewson,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Tucked in an alcove of the limestone cliffs high above the floodplain of Beaver Creek, the five-story structure built in the twelfth century makes an imposing sight.—
Roger Naylor,
AZCentral.com,
20 Feb. 2026
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Passengers swapped T-shirts with sweaters as the train gathered speed, and the plains around Bologna flitted by the window.—
Vic O'Sullivan,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
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The lunar sea Mare Crisium (the Sea of Crisis) is just visible as a dark circular feature at the top of the sunlit lunar disk, where lava flooded a network of impact craters over a billion years ago, before hardening into a vast basaltic plain.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
4 Mar. 2026
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Plant seeds in cells or flats 1/4 -inch deep in a soilless starter mix.—
Barbara Gillette,
The Spruce,
27 Feb. 2026
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Lucky for me, Nordstrom’s sale section is teeming with discounts on transitional and warm-weather fashion, from lightweight jackets and T-shirts to cute ballet flats and sneakers.—
Jordan Julian,
InStyle,
27 Feb. 2026
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That spreads out the water over the whole valley bottom, versus just in a pond.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
1 Mar. 2026
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On our flight back, the pilot has some fun, swooping through valleys and banking sharply around crests.—
Brent Rose,
Outside,
28 Feb. 2026
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Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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The goal was to help preserve and protect the delicate valley and its fens.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Tidewater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidewater. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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