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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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If you're Mahli Beardman, now the most exciting fast bowler in Australian cricket, it's easy: "Try and get down to the beach!"

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

A reader has $2 million saved and a retirement wish list: a beach property and lots of international trips.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

“In today’s world, where we don’t think there’s enough justice, she should be on top of the world, not on top of a beach ball, but actually more serious, on top of the world.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 24-year-old woman authorities said was swept out to sea on Sunday night from a beach in Santa Cruz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

One morning, Don Quixote, dressed in full armor, was riding along the beach.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

New research suggests that marine resources washed onto prehistoric beaches helped feed dinosaurs and their prey millions of years ago.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2026

No one yet knows whether this year’s sea turtles are an anomaly or the first of many to nest on California beaches in the future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

“We should see ... surf heights in some of those west-facing beaches in that eight-to-12-foot range, some areas may be a little bit lower,” Lewis said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

Popular tourist beaches at Margate and Ramsgate are among the areas affected by the spill.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

There’d be little villages with streams going through them, white monuments on hillsides, old churches beside fields; if she was telling us about a coastal place, there’d be beaches crowded with people, cliffs with seagulls.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Their color-coded tale of a traumatized war veteran, his concerned daughter and a beached whale is evocative and unsentimental.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2025

A great number of longships, fifty or sixty at the least, stbod out to sea or lay beached on the pebbled shore to the north.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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

A pod of nearly 100 pilot whales displayed unusual behavior before beaching themselves in Australia.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Wildlife experts speculated the beaching could be an indicator of stress or illness within the pod, but said the reasons would likely remain a mystery.

From Seattle 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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