beach
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Volunteer Lou Shackleton said there was still a core group of individuals who gave up their spare time to monitor and recover nurdles on local beach.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
This caravan, wrecked by the storm, was spotted at Aberdeen beach.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
A 2½-hour ferry ride brought us to our first round at Colonsay Golf Course, a 200-year-old course overlooking a sandy beach, situated on machair grassland, found only on the western coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Beneath rotating wind turbines on Sri Lanka's Mannar peninsula, a fishing net is hauled up the beach by tractor winches and 20 men, but once again the catch is meagre.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
There was a pool of fresh water to drink and a waterfall to slide down, and, in a hidden hollow where the grasslands met the white shell beach, there was—“A place for a hut!”
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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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
“We lost our beaches and our trails within two weeks,” resident Rebecca Schwarz lamented as she stood with her partner, Todd, and their border collie, Bodie, surveying the Norte fire’s damage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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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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
A minke whale has beached and died at Portstewart Strand in County Londonderry.
From BBC ● May 26, 2025
And beyond the dead trunks, maybe sixty yards away, was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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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
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
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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