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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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“You’re in unrelenting sun along the beach for most of the race, and there’s just no shade,” Sheppard, a private yoga teacher in Los Angeles, said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

You can drag it to the bath, the pool or a sandy beach without dread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

Mary, from Wexford, said she and her children found the turtle while walking on a beach near Castlegregory on the Dingle peninsula in County Kerry after an Atlantic storm.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

“Selling our beach to Elon Musk is just something that is almost unimaginable, it’s unacceptable,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

I bring the book on whales plus my trash-picking supplies, since even in the darkness I noticed there was some debris on the beach.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

Its beaches and sand dunes sit alongside historic coastal cities such as Mogadishu, whose culture reflects centuries of Indian Ocean trade.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

"In recent months we have seen launches from the Normandy beaches, Belgium and now as far afield as the Netherlands rather than across the short straits to Dover under the original model," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Federal biologists made a last-minute decision to relocate the eggs after forecasters predicted high tides would swamp their nests on Orange County beaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

Targeted bacterial warnings at certain beaches and rain advisories involving water runoff are more common.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

It was a small hilly mass of land, covered in forests and ringed with white beaches.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

The image of the beached horse first lodged in Nolan’s mind over 20 years ago when he was in the running to direct a movie based on another Homeric epic, “The Iliad.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

But I can choose to recognize that some performers, artistic works and brands are simply too big to fail or bury, so they become some version of a beached grey whale’s corpse.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

Vonk and his team ensure the country is ready for extreme scenarios: a drought meaning all inland shipping is beached or a devastating storm surge.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

Tasmania's Department of Natural Resources and Environment said 157 false killer whales had beached near Arthur River, in the island's north west.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025

But Jeanne is coughing and choking and Jacob is gasping like a beached fish and William, great William, is sinking.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

A humpback whale rescued after beaching itself in Germany has been found dead near a Danish island.

From BBC ● May 16, 2026

A humpback whale that underwent a rescue operation in Germany two weeks ago after beaching itself there has been found dead near a Danish island, officials said Saturday.

From Barron's ● May 16, 2026

A spokesperson from the National Weather Service in Monterey attributed high tides for beaching the bomb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024

But authorities and researchers, baffled by the behavior, feared that a mass beaching was imminent.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

She could feel the dream shallowing, like a sleek ship beaching on a shoal.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor


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