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shoreline

[shawr-lahyn, shohr-] / ˈʃɔrˌlaɪn, ˈʃoʊr- /


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A member of the public found the body on the Menai Strait shoreline near Siliwen Road in Bangor, Gwynedd, on Sunday shortly before 17:00 BST.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

As the train arrived in San Clemente, passengers peered through the train windows to take in the crashing waves, sandy shoreline and beachgoers relaxing underneath umbrellas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

It generally covers land below five meters in elevation and within 200 meters of the shoreline.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

With miles of shoreline on Lake Erie, Bratenahl, Ohio, is an exclusive residential community about 10 minutes east of downtown Cleveland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

When Rondon arrived, he ordered Kermit to wait there while he and Lyra scouted from the river’s shoreline to determine if the rapids were passable or if a portage would need to be built.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Navy had recently chosen Damen “to help it fast-track a new fleet” of a different type of vessel: up to 35 medium-sized ships to move troops and supplies to shorelines.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Perhaps, if the Navy had moved away from large aircraft carriers and more toward small ships that could attack with speed and stealth along shorelines.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

Thomas Quarry I sits within the raised coastal formations of the Rabat-Casablanca littoral, an area internationally recognized for its remarkably complete record of Plio-Pleistocene shorelines, dunes, and cave systems.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026

People lingering at night along the shorelines of a small, affluent city north of Miami have been startled lately when they look up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

A tugboat made its way down the river, causing the water to crash into the rocks along the shorelines.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser




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