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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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With the scrape Debbie and Judith find themselves in, a beach holiday is out of the question.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2026

Bravo’s newest franchise features fights on the beach, a getaway at a historic Breakers mansion, plus a local beach snack known as “pizza chips.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

The council said it had arranged the independent beach risk assessment, which had advised improving signs about water safety.

From BBC Jul. 26, 2026

He called a Times reporter during his incarceration and said he had been arrested for damaging a bench near the beach shortly after his return.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

And sure enough, tucked between a department store catalogue and an electricity bill is yet another beach scene.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The Home Office said its new deal with France - signed in April - prevents these "perilous journeys by boosting enforcement action on beaches".

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

"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

Outside the stadium, bars, beaches and Metro stations became theaters of drama and triumph, culminating in hours-long revelry all throughout the city at after-parties and postgame celebrations.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 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

The game for the day was to sail the raft out to a marker nailed several hundred yards from shore, somewhere between the two beaches.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

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

But not before Maxine sings a song to a beached whale, calling it back into the sea.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2024

The north coast of Africa was where they finally beached their ships.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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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