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“Rip currents are typically more frequent and stronger in the vicinity of jetties, inlets, and piers.”

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A more extensive upgrade that moves the position of that engine’s air inlet is set to be available for new aircraft deliveries.

Cities built near major bodies of water often create new land by dumping soil and rubble, called landfill, into bays and ocean inlets.

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Near midnight on the night of September 30, 1962, four Soviet submarine commanders walked through thick fog along a wooden pier on Sayda Bay, an inlet of the Barents Sea.

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To mark the occasion, Sheikh Mohamed invited Zhao to his ornate private palace where he typically welcomed foreign dignitaries, hidden from the city across an inlet by a dense bank of trees.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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