beach
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Bunch, in an interview, said he made the call to retire in late August while he was vacationing at the beach with his family—before the Interior Department’s letter went out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
From there, you can see the entire area of the proposed development, acres and acres of it, including the stretch of unspoiled white-sand beach between the lagoon and the sea that we’d just driven past.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Chapters nationwide offer barbecues, beach days, run clubs, happy hours, karaoke, prom nights and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some scientists recommend five days, especially if the beach is close to an area where a river or an outfall dumps into the ocean.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
That’s the only benefit of living out of a suitcase meant for the beach.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Tired of the overcrowded beaches of Italy, Greece, and Spain, savvy developers are looking for new stretches of the coastline and have landed on Albania.
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
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
“Large breaking waves can cause injury, wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats near shore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Soon the River broadened and grew more shallow; long stony beaches lay upon the east, and there were gravel-shoals in the water, so that careful steering was needed.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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
I walked along the whole edge of the island until I found Daisy sitting on an uprooted barkless tree that had beached here as some flood receded.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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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
A spokesperson from the National Weather Service in Monterey attributed high tides for beaching the bomb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 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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