surf
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But according to Wainwright, she particularly enjoyed spending time in the surf town: “She loved doing her flips in Laguna.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
The weather service is warning of dangerous rip currents and elevated surf of 3 to 6 feet on Catalina and Santa Barbara Islands and Los Angeles and Ventura County beaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Even the brief imitation of Lennon’s “losing control” scream is laser-precise, meant to boost the song’s momentum and carry it through a cheery and lazy surf solo.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
El Niño jolts California fuel market—and brings epic waves to a surf spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
There she rolled a moment in the shallow surf and lay panting, with the welcome grit of the beach on her cheek.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
John van Rooyen regularly surfs and spear fishes at the Tinley Manor beach, about 2 miles from where he lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
He mentions being tired often for a 41-year-old who makes sure he goes on a bike ride, plays tennis, surfs, swims or hikes every day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
Efrus, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs the waves in the Pacific waters off Peru.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
He grew up surfing at Makaha and now surfs all over the world, and has trained at the Slater wave pool and a Texas one.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023
Wanting to ask where he’s from and what his name is and if he surfs and how old he is and what school he’s going to next fall.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
Suvorova writes about girls in school accusing her mother of being a gold digger, intentionally choosing rich boyfriends that would eventually become rich husbands while they lived in poverty and couch surfed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
These were made for girls who actually surfed.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
Koh said he surfed the web when the others slept.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
It is also in this house where Bryn famously "surfed the world wide web" to give Gavin directions from Barry to Essex in the first series.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
One day we worked on verb tenses: “I surf the Net, I surfed the Net, I was surfing the Net.”
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Plus: Diesel export-ban drama, a fight over power poles in Texas and El Niño brings epic waves to a California surfing hot spot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
El Niño can create a surfing paradise in Southern California.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
"There are sharks in the ocean and we're still surfing... it's a can do, not a can't do - please change the mindset here," he said at the time.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
To Walsh, surfing was “super straight, very hypermasculine, very intimidating.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
I am so busy surfing the Charlies that I do not see, until I arrive, that a message is scrawled—in Charlie’s messy handwriting—in the steam.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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