as in beach
the land or the part of a town next to the water of an ocean, lake, etc.
They have evening concerts on the waterfront.
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Recent Examples of waterfront
Following in the top 10 were a nine-bedroom waterfront home at 88 La Gorce Cir.
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Some of the money was allegedly used to pay for two Yorba Linda mansions and a waterfront condominium in Huntington Beach, the indictment alleges.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Vasastan This waterfront home, located on the island of Stora Essingen, was built by furniture designer Mattias Stenberg.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Some roads and low-lying property including parking lots, parks, lawns, and homes adjacent to the waterfront will experience shallow flooding.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
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Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Some of the money was allegedly used to pay for two Yorba Linda mansions and a waterfront condominium in Huntington Beach, the indictment alleges.
—City News Service, Oc Register, 16 Oct. 2025
Vasastan This waterfront home, located on the island of Stora Essingen, was built by furniture designer Mattias Stenberg.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 15 Oct. 2025
Some roads and low-lying property including parking lots, parks, lawns, and homes adjacent to the waterfront will experience shallow flooding.
—Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for waterfront
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New additives like preservatives, flavorings and vitamins were infused into them, and they were packaged in novel ways to withstand hard helicopter drops, wet beach landings and days at the bottom of rucksacks.—
Alice Callahan,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Their eggs were also considered a delicacy and dug up from their nests on beaches.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
16 Oct. 2025
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Gehman, then a graduate student earning a doctorate in disease ecology, had heard about a mysterious illness sweeping through the Pacific coast’s iconic invertebrates.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Oct. 2025
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After breakfast, drive north from Palma about 25 minutes to the Serra de Tramuntana, a rugged mountain range (and UNESCO World Heritage Site) that covers the island’s northwest coast.—
Emilio Parra Doiztua,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Waterfront.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/waterfront. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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