waterfront
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It started regaining some lost ground that decade as developers set out to revive the waterfront.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
However, these were consistently located 60–80 kilometres from the waterfront, so they are not likely to have been caused by capsizing icebergs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Inside a waterfront factory, workers in hairnets and blue overalls are sorting freshly caught cod and haddock, and machines process the fish into fillets, mostly bound for Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Graham was meeting and greeting voters on a steamy Sunday afternoon at a waterfront venue in suburban Charleston.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
They didn’t stay in the waterfront shed for long, but where they went next was only marginally better, an old house on Phinney Ridge, west of Green Lake.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
It sparked a craze where people flocked to places like parks, waterfronts and shopping malls in the hope of catching Pokémon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The pier, once “one of the wildest, bawdiest waterfronts on the West Coast,” was again restored to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
“In the next decade, New York’s waterfronts are going to look very different.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
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
