beach
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Papin decided to go back to the beach because she thought it was safer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Forecasters warned that those seeking to escape the heat with a trip to the beach should take care, as a large south swell from Hurricane Genevieve will continue to result in big waves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
A tiler in civilian life, he has spent days rushing water and carrying hoses behind the firefighters beating back the blazes near his home in the beach resort of Lanton in southwest France.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
Colchester City Council and West Mersea Town Council have both said warning signs are due to be installed at the beach this summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Back at the beach, the sea lions were honking and restless, and Fred’s friends were zipping over the rocks, even the oldest scuttling like hatchlings.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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The phrase “summering in Michigan” likely brings to mind the car-free charm of Mackinac Island or the beaches of Traverse City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Over 500 personnel in protective gear have been posted on beaches to clean up the foul-smelling weeds.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Home Office has said its new £662m deal with France, signed in April, curbed dangerous crossings by "boosting enforcement action on beaches".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Now a Category 4 hurricane and moving northwest with sustained winds of about 155 mph, Genevieve is expected to generate up to 11-foot swells by Wednesday afternoon along beaches that face south and southwest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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 SS Richard Montgomery beached along the Thames Estuary in 1944 eventually sinking with 1,400 tonnes of explosive cargo on board.
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2024
Grandma returned to the stove, leaving Mrs. Weidenbach beached by the kitchen table, where she overlooked Mary Alice and me.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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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
These beaching events confront us with a little-understood but essential facet of marine ecology — and may become more common as the oceans warm.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
But authorities and researchers, baffled by the behavior, feared that a mass beaching was imminent.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Once the whales began beaching themselves on the shore, wildlife authorities launched an emergency response effort in a bid to save them.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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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