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as in to flow
to move or proceed smoothly and readily
coasting along easily in the light traffic
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Recent Examples of coast
Erin Clack, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
Image Canadian scientists are working to solve a marine mystery after several dead sharks washed up on the east coast.
—Ian Austen, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
Issy Ronald, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
However, these flourishes serve a muddled piece that coasts on its interpretability alone.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 25 Jan. 2025
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Noun
While walking along the English island's Wessex Formation coast on Wednesday, Feb. 12, Joe Thompson stumbled upon a rare, purple dinosaur print imprinted in clay, according to an Instagram post from the fossil tour company Wight Coast Fossils.
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Sinner coasted to another grand slam title from there, becoming the youngest man for 32 years to win back-to-back tournaments in Melbourne.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for coast
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Corporate news While investors wait for broad economic signs, company news continued to flow.—
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Videos and photos of the bright orange lava flowing down the mountainside went viral after a group of hikers posted them on social media.—
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Trump's plan, articulated without consultation with Jordan or Egypt, would involve the U.S. taking over Gaza, a small Palestinian territory with a Mediterranean coastline.—
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Many of the Florida bites were likely from blacktip sharks, which occupy breeding grounds that stretch along the northeast Florida coastline, the Florida Museum of Natural History noted in the statement.—
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The cameras roll, and the sea and sky, with a click of a mouse, become a tropical afternoon and a gentle swell, and Sandokan sails once more.—
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The Chinese flotilla sailed to the south and arrived in the Tasman Sea 150 nautical miles east of Sydney, on Australia's east coast, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.—
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Star Harbor Apartments, located along the Alameda shoreline, has been bought for $153.7 million, according to documents filed on Feb. 5 with the Alameda County Recorder’s Office.—
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With warm waters and ample shoreline, Florida had a total of 14 bites, more than any other state.—
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As for the content, the rest of the movie features Orsolya drifting from one encounter to another, meeting with friends and family to talk about what happened and try to unpack her feelings.—
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The soundtrack shows off Luckey’s versatility, her husky voice drifting between rock, new wave, house and adult contemporary.—
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The ceremony is looking for other venues before planning a return to that Santa Monica beach location once the 2028 Olympics have passed.—
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Try The Vegan Tasting Menu at Azure Restaurant Set alongside the beach, Azure Restaurant is a fine dining establishment at the hotel.—
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In 2018, Milton posted a video on X that showed the truck seemingly cruise down a flat road.—
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In addition to being a model for cruising sustainably, the MS Roald Amundsen features an observation deck, a science center, three Nordic-style restaurants, an infinity pool, and hot tubs.—
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Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.—
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Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.—
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“Coast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coast. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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