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A draft of the study didn’t propose only one solution but advocated for 23 different strategies, including bluff stabilization, catchment walls, sand placement, engineered revetments or seawalls and rail-foundation improvements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Known to local real-estate agents as Billionaires’ Bluff, the enclave is known for its blufftop estates, as well as beach houses, like McEnroe’s, on the sand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

If local potters had simply copied the decorative appearance, the underlying construction would instead reflect familiar Tampa Bay practices such as sand tempering.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

An EA investigation has found the pollution is contained within an area of the beach near the Hole in the Wall, where it is seeping into the sand through contaminated groundwater.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

His voice was dry as sand, and rasping.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

July also saw declines in oil and gas extraction, excluding at oil sands mines in Western Canada which tempered the fall, and in mining as production of potash, gold and silver fell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Unlike the scrolls from Herculaneum, those documents survived because they were buried in Egypt's dry sands.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

After all, the sands of our emotional and financial landscapes keep shifting, not always in sync.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

On the sands of Abersoch in Gwynedd, Beach Hut 7 is a timber and corrugated iron cabin, one of only 17 on the right-hand side of the stretch of coast.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

As I walk, it seems like shapes appear in the sands, figures spinning and dancing, feeding off the wind’s ferocity.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

When quizzed by the organisers, the miscreants confessed that they had sanded them into a better shape - and were duly disqualified.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

That appeal could strengthen if Texas embeds tax restrictions in its constitution and guarantees that corporate investments won’t be sanded down by policy changes years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

Its throwing arm, currently at 12 o’clock, weighs 360 pounds and is not hewn or sanded; knots are visible in the wood.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

How often do you take walks with a loved one? — those things got sanded down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

She could hear Madame Antoine’s heavy, scraping tread as she walked back and forth on the sanded floor.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

But she didn’t want to tackle sanding, disassembling and repainting the latter entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

However, due to the failed sanding systems and low wheel-rail adhesion, the speed "was such that the deceleration required to slow the train for the loop could not be sustained".

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

The pad of my left foot felt as if I’d stepped on a sanding belt.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

That might mean, for instance, sanding, patching and repainting interior doors instead of buying new ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Some boats were up on racks, and men and women worked over the hulls, sanding, scraping, painting.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt