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waterfront

[waw-ter-fruhnt, wot-er-] / ˈwɔ tərˌfrʌnt, ˈwɒt ər- /






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Board of Harbor Commissioners allocate a portion of its operating income from the Port of Los Angeles to investments in waterfront public access projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

As for the Port of Los Angeles, the amendment would require the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners to annually allocate a portion of the harbor’s operating income to investments in waterfront public access projects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

For Jourdain Yardan, golfing at the East Potomac Golf Links on Washington DC's waterfront is a twice-weekly ritual.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Voting and property records show that he and his wife make their primary residence at a waterfront mansion in Coral Gables, Fla., that they purchased for $22 million in 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

But the men working along the waterfront seemed to be doing what they always did.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

"It sits above Roman waterfronts so that road effectively protects a whole massive swathe of wonderful archaeology - and that would be early Roman waterfronts, medieval buildings, everything," she says.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026

Things are precarious all around for West Coast commercial fishermen, who worry about maintaining their working waterfronts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

The work to protect salmon habitat extends beyond those forest streams, through agricultural land, urban landscapes and working waterfronts.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

Research in recent years has shown that building walls along some waterfronts deflects the water elsewhere, causing damage.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022

From New Jersey to Alaska, reservoirs, bridges, tunnels, factories, and waterfronts were put under guard.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand


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