sandbar
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Tubbs said he was grateful that the condo he bought was on the side of the street where the city was building a sandbar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Covering four representative species—the great white, the sandbar, the small-spotted catshark and the spiny dogfish—Daniel C. Abel and Sophie A. Maycock deliver breadth without sacrificing depth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
The two-year-old female calf had been stuck in the tidal lagoon after her pregnant mother was stranded and later died on a sandbar.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
Bar push is caused when deposition on the inside of a bend forms a sandbar, which pushes the curve outward.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
It was a rocky sandbar a mile wide at its widest and a little longer than that, fringed all about with shoals and rocks.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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