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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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Chapters nationwide offer barbecues, beach days, run clubs, happy hours, karaoke, prom nights and more.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

To go from that to the proposed high-end beach clubs and already present budget-airline weekenders involves extreme whiplash.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

Miller says the number of teens arriving at the beach, likely driven by social media, “is more than ever.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The workshop is open daily from March to November, though she took one day off in August to go to the beach.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

For as long as she could remember, Chica had been the only turtle to swim out of the sea, back to this beach where she was hatched, to lay her own eggs.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

She was late to meet me because she stopped to sign a petition about pollution on Vlore’s beaches.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

So enjoying Albania's beaches and scenery was very much part of the attraction of getting his teeth fixed here.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

As marine mammal rehabilitators brace for the grim possibility of mass strandings in Southern California, rescuers on beaches to the north worry about another dynamic.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

South-facing beaches in Long Beach and Malibu were hit particularly hard by a combination of high swells, higher-than-high tides and tropical-storm-charged waves.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 7, 2026

They drew up alongside the shore, skimming past mottled beaches and fields of grass.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

What’s more depressing is that a research biologist interviewed by KING-TV, Seattle’s NBC affiliate, stated that the beached whales people have encountered likely represent only a quarter to a fifth of the total death toll.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

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

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

At one point the overloaded boat appeared to be beached on a sand bar by the retreating tide but then it moved further out to sea.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2024

Janice Avery had given him nothing but trouble, and now he was feeling responsible for her—like one of the Burkes’ timber wolves or beached whales.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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

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 besides beating seasonal crowds, winter beaching has another leg up on summer: storm watching.

From Seattle Times Jan. 20, 2024

She could feel the dream shallowing, like a sleek ship beaching on a shoal.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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