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beach

[beech] / bitʃ /


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About 3,400 of the tiny plants have been rescued from an area of eroded beach at Culbin Sands, an area of dunes and forest near Findhorn, and moved to a safe location nearby.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

Coast Guard has suspended its search for a 24-year-old woman authorities said was swept out to sea on Sunday night from a beach in Santa Cruz.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026

You can drag it to the bath, the pool or a sandy beach without dread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026

“Selling our beach to Elon Musk is just something that is almost unimaginable, it’s unacceptable,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

A short beach of gray-white sand led to the cliff edge, which rose, a great face of variegated rock, for fifty feet.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

At Bolsa Chica, Doheny, Pismo, Refugio, San Elijo and South Carlsbad state beaches, Thanksgiving week has been more than 90% booked for the last several years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

During the group's visit, they enjoy lunch overlooking the Indian Ocean before heading out to explore the beaches and sand dunes.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

“Sand on the beaches is the solution,” Foley said, urging the commission to approve the permit to ensure the sand replenishment project could move forward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The proposed defences would see manmade rock headlands built on the beach to trap sand and prevent the loss of the town's sandy beaches.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The green palms, the warm turquoise ocean rolling in to white beaches meant nothing to him.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

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

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

A minke whale has beached and died at Portstewart Strand in County Londonderry.

From BBC ● May 26, 2025

When the morning fog burned off and the sun was high, the beauty queens and the accidental pirates trudged through the waters to the beached ship to assess the damage.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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 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

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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