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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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Rode my bike 21 miles on the beach yesterday in 95-degree weather.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

The 43-year-old and her family arrived at the beach at about 11:00, and recalled seeing the victims having a "great time" together.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

“The Merry Wives of Windsor Cove,” a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at UC Irvine’s New Swan Shakespeare Festival, relocates the comedy to a Southern California beach town in the 1950s.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

"We were at the beach and they told us to go back to the campsite to grab our things," said the 50-year-old from Belgium.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

There was a wide stretch of beach between the end of the trail and the edge of the lake.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

"Bulldozers on the beaches have already damaged the nesting sites of loggerhead turtles, which are threatened with extinction," Olsi Nika, a marine biologist who heads the NGO EcoAlbania, told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

We didn’t have whales, just freshwater fish like alewifes, which stunk up the beaches with annual die-offs that occurred in huge numbers.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

Dangerous waves on the beaches were expected courtesy of Tropical Storm Elida, which originated off of southern Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

"It was full of beaches, sand beaches, good fishing, good hunting - the wildlife was beautiful. We had eagles that were always there," she said.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Plus, I read that the beaches in Maryland don’t even have very big waves.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

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

At the toe of the bluff, the geotubes stretched out like a beached Leviathan.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 8, 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

A minke whale has beached and died at Portstewart Strand in County Londonderry.

From BBC May 26, 2025

He lay like a beached whale on the narrow hotel bed and wondered idly if it had indeed been Velutha that Rahel saw.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

“It doesn’t cut a dent in their population,” he said of the beaching phenomenon.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2024

Others, who didn’t want to damage their boats by beaching them, followed suit but ended up trapped in a whirlpool in the middle of bay, he said survivors told him.

From Seattle Times Nov. 13, 2023

A pod of nearly 100 pilot whales displayed unusual behavior before beaching themselves in Australia.

From New York Times Jul. 28, 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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