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dune

[doon, dyoon] / dun, djun /


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"Firefighters will carry out combined operations of clearing forest undergrowth and treating the edges of the fire in the dune area," a prefecture official said.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

From the overlook, the road reads as a line dividing two expressions of the same dune system.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 2026

Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

At Monte Clérigo, researchers identified 5 trackways and 26 individual footprints created by adults and by children slightly over a year old on the slope of what was once a coastal dune.

From Science Daily Nov. 13, 2025

How we longed to poke that dune with the sample arm, look for life beneath that rock, see if that distant ridge was a crater rampart.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Though the Scooby-Doo towers would never make it across the dunes, there are better ways to build a sandwich for adventure.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Every year, close to seven million tourists visit the Gironde region, which is popular for its sand dunes and beaches along the Atlantic coast, as well as its vineyards.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

“So then they asked me to walk down this beach, and every 10 minutes you’d hear ‘Rolling!’ and I’d have to lie down and hide behind these dunes.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

In the report they published following their visit, they highlighted damage to turtle nesting sites, bird habitats and the local dunes.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

In the distance, I could see the shifting dunes, rising like mountains, a thousand feet high.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri




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