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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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He added: “I’d like to see the entire beach erode all the way to our property before the road went across it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Humboldt County officials have long debated what to do about Centerville Road, a narrow, twisting byway that leads to an eroding rural beach and a handful of homes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

ISRAEL—In Tel Aviv, one of Israel’s more liberal hubs, Ben Friedhaim sits with his young daughter in HaKnesset Square as waves gently lap onto the nearby beach just days before the election.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

I wore it on my third date with Lisa, on the beach 20 years ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

But it’s not like Mom could have convinced Brie to take a random beach trip, I don’t think.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

She initially joined Harvard University in the United States, and then moved to Sydney's northern beaches earlier this year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026

They're usually used after sightings near popular beaches.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

UAE authorities said on Thursday that the incident is affecting beaches near the northern city of Umm Al Quwain and verified video from Friday shows the oil washing ashore, colouring the water black.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The agency is warning that rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea, while waves can wash people off beaches and rocks and capsize small boats near shore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It had white shell beaches, pale gold sand, and tumbled black rocks where the spray threw rainbows into the sky.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Grizzly bears are — were — omnivores, not picky eaters, and also lazy ones, noshing on berries, roots, acorns, beached whale carcasses and any laggardly young elk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

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

The surf washed gently against the stern of their beached boat.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

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

But besides beating seasonal crowds, winter beaching has another leg up on summer: storm watching.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2024

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

Carefully, we inched the Miss Amanda around the sandbar without beaching her until we were directly above the deep water.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings


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