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Recent Examples of wharf
What led to Westerman driving off the wharf remains under police investigation.
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Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
In the 2007-08 fiscal year, the port authority increased fees for five major services, including tugboats, water supply, wharf rent, container storage and container loading and unloading.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
One day in April, Noone and I rode a ferry from downtown Sydney to Manly, where Young met us on the wharf.
—Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
The project at AltaSea, a nonprofit ocean institute at the port, involves a row of large blue floaters in the water, attached to infrastructure on the wharf, that move up and down with wave action to create energy.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
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Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
In the 2007-08 fiscal year, the port authority increased fees for five major services, including tugboats, water supply, wharf rent, container storage and container loading and unloading.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
One day in April, Noone and I rode a ferry from downtown Sydney to Manly, where Young met us on the wharf.
—Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
The project at AltaSea, a nonprofit ocean institute at the port, involves a row of large blue floaters in the water, attached to infrastructure on the wharf, that move up and down with wave action to create energy.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wharf
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Thousands of protesters met in front of City Hall in the afternoon, before many marched to the federal detention center, where a mob of violent agitators swarmed the area, pushing a large construction dumpster and blocking the entrance to the building's loading dock.—
Michael Sinkewicz,
FOXNews.com,
31 Jan. 2026
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Joyland, featuring swimming, waterslides, a dance hall, dock-and-picnic area, opens on Lake Ivanhoe in what would become the College Park neighborhood of Orlando.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
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After a portion of the Keansburg Fishing Pier crashed into the Raritan Bay, there's now concern at other marinas and piers that are being hit by chunks of ice.—
Christine Sloan,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Snook are concentrated in warmer, inshore waters at this time of year, although all local piers have some snook lurking.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
6 Feb. 2026
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Wine is embedded in the city’s architecture, history and daily life, from grand 18th-century façades to the bustling quays of the Garonne.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Blast damage in the lower left section of a quay in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on Tuesday.—
Colin Sheeley,
NBC news,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Wharf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wharf. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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