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Recent Examples of shoreline
Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, Norris Lake spans five counties and offers more than 800 miles of shoreline, 22 marinas, and more than 50 islands.
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Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 12 Feb. 2025
Hundreds of ducks stricken by bird flu have been found in the Chicago area along the shoreline of Lake Michigan.
—Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
The Manitoulin, a 663-foot freighter, became stranded on Wednesday, Jan. 22, when ice rapidly formed amid freezing temperatures off the Buffalo shoreline, the AP reports.
—David Chiu, People.com, 25 Jan. 2025
The second, scrub lot is also hidden behind a logistics and warehouse facility and City Furniture and Home Depot big-box stores, and sits on the shoreline of a containment lake.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
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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 heart of the place is about 100 miles of Mediterranean coastline—a temperate zone south of the Galilee hills and north of the Negev desert with an average width until the Jordan River of about 50 miles.—
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Claridge’s Flowers has created a bespoke Hotel Il Pellicano bouquet that aims to conjure the feeling of the Tuscan coast with seasonal flowers wrapped in the yellow and white striped paper, recalling the hotel’s colors.—
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At a compact difference outside Montevideo are 1,000 kilometers of coast, a broad gamut of beaches, desert dunes and extensive rural landscapes.—
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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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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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Assuming 1,000 feet of beachfront per project, Gaza would support the construction of up to 132 new multi-hundred-million-dollar structures.—
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On a drive up the slim island neck, the condo and hotel beachfront suddenly gives way to a shift back to the area’s original mangrove habitats.—
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Malibu beachfront properties are now just a scorched seashore.—
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Most ranchers at the beloved seashore have agreed to take money from the Nature Conservancy to cease operations, as John Beck reports for the Press Democrat.—
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“Shoreline.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoreline. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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