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shoreline

[shawr-lahyn, shohr-] / ˈʃɔrˌlaɪn, ˈʃoʊr- /


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Ray Spencer told The Times in 2022 that the shoreline would have been under 100 feet of water about 40 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

This was a major task, as the sites on Late Kariba’s shoreline are deep inside Matusadona National Park.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The stretch of track along the San Clemente shoreline has long offered picturesque views of sandy beaches and lapping ocean waves for passengers traveling between Los Angeles and San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

For seven centuries, the low-slung shoreline of Lamu Old Town, set against the turquoise waters of Kenya’s coast, has attracted traders and speculators alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

For the next hour, I sit and fill this sheet with palm trees along an imaginary shoreline.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

Living shorelines, such as those along the Orange and San Diego county coasts, involve piling sand atop boulders or smaller stones and covering the berms with vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

One of the beefs homeowners have with PWCs—and so called “wake boats”—is that the waves they generate can slam moored boats into docks and erode shorelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Navy had recently chosen Damen “to help it fast-track a new fleet” of a different type of vessel: up to 35 medium-sized ships to move troops and supplies to shorelines.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Perhaps, if the Navy had moved away from large aircraft carriers and more toward small ships that could attack with speed and stealth along shorelines.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

A tugboat made its way down the river, causing the water to crash into the rocks along the shorelines.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser


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