surf
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The pair plans to come back to California for the winter: El Niño is expected to produce intense snowfall they’d like to ski, and ocean swells they’d like to surf.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
He proceeded, over the next half decade, to write a screenplay, learn to surf, become a tennis player and publish a novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The new Siri AI doesn’t surf websites for users yet; it’s built to navigate iPhone apps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“I was teaching a lot of people to surf, mostly women who didn’t want a straight man to teach them how to surf because it feels vulnerable enough,” says Walsh.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Cunningham rode into the surf so that the horse was in water up to his knees, and the sea licked at the lord’s boots.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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John van Rooyen regularly surfs and spear fishes at the Tinley Manor beach, about 2 miles from where he lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
Efrus, a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, surfs the waves in the Pacific waters off Peru.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
He grew up surfing at Makaha and now surfs all over the world, and has trained at the Slater wave pool and a Texas one.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023
My husband surfs, so he had a surfboard, which is a lot smaller than a paddleboard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
She surfs waves as big as houses and jumps off anything.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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After graduating in 2021, she moved to London and couch surfed for six months, before she got a job as an admin assistant at the Royal Court Theatre on its education team.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
Koh said he surfed the web when the others slept.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
It is also in this house where Bryn famously "surfed the world wide web" to give Gavin directions from Barry to Essex in the first series.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
"In the beginning, it was difficult because we are girls and we didn't see other girls who surfed," Sambe said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 6, 2026
A writhing body surfed along the top of the throng up ahead.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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"There are sharks in the ocean and we're still surfing... it's a can do, not a can't do - please change the mindset here," he said at the time.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"They're the ones that are actually sleeping under the stars – not sofa surfing or in caravans or anything, they're actually rough sleeping," she says.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Before a near-fatal car crash in the late 1970s, in which he lost one eye and suffered severe facial trauma, he had loved surfing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
While Washburn does tour with a small band, whenever possible, he is by himself, off the grid, out surfing, camping or embarking on whimsical construction projects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Hustling is to work what surfing the Internet is to reading.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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