coast
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Hundreds of Americans died when the Oryoku Maru sank off the coast of the Philippines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The coast will be a bit cooler, but still getting into the 80s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
The fire further along the coast burnt through farmland before moving through the rural town of Xironomi.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
"We receive many Turkish guests, especially from Izmir and other parts of Turkey's Aegean coast," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
At nightfall I turned on my headlamp, set it high on the hill of ice, pointed it toward the coast, and waited.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
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Dix was a baseball prodigy too cocky and flashy for his own good who now coasts through life on his long-ago heroics coupled with charm and an undeserved diet of luck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Very little rainfall is forecast through this week for most places, with only a few light showers possible, mainly close to coasts.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
The Mediterranean experienced its own record-breaking marine heatwave, with the continent's Atlantic coasts also hit by hot spells, putting ecosystems at risk.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Neighboring states like Massachusetts allow property owners greater control of the coasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Austronesians settled on islands west and north and east of New Guinea, and in the far west and on the north and southeast coasts of New Guinea itself.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Stalter’s loud, boundary-pushing nepo baby Kayla on “Hacks” was divisive, but she coasted to her first nomination on the wave of goodwill surrounding the show’s final season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Sometimes this happens because the studios are trying to capitalize on a moment, like when “The Minecraft Movie” coasted in on the fumes of “The Super Mario Bros. Movie.”
From Salon ● May 25, 2026
But the absence of the two centers had little effect on Detroit as they coasted to a wire-to-wire victory in Toronto.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
Zohran Mamdani coasted to victory in the New York City mayoral race with a platform focused on making the city more affordable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
I swam back to the surf and coasted in, face down, on a big roller, then turned and swam, trying to keep in the trough and not have a wave break over me.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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Every successful actor probably has a nightmare that one day the phone stops ringing and you’re coasting on fading glory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
They were a toxic organization coasting on a grand arena and the vapors of memories.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
The changes have been targeted at reducing what have been described as "counter-intuitive" driving techniques, such as lifting off and coasting before corners in qualifying to charge the battery.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
But it didn’t seem to bother him, and he got quite used to coasting through politics.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
When he felt the bat coasting down for a landing, he was relieved at the distraction, although he disliked meeting up with Luxa and Henry again.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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