ashore
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About six to eight hours after coming ashore, the seals' heart rates surged, sometimes climbing as high as 84 beats per minute.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
The Hondius, she highlighted, was an expedition vessel, with passengers going ashore on Atlantic islands to do birdwatching and other activities -- meaning there could be "some source of infection on the islands".
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Shelley was a seaman gunner on the destroyer HMS Milne on D-Day and guarded troops going ashore during the Normandy landings in June 1944.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
The team found a news article about other human remains washing ashore in 1999 a few miles south of Bodega Bay, about four miles from Salmon Creek State Beach, according to the release.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026
All because a ship had gone ashore in the fog.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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