sandbar
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Covering four representative species—the great white, the sandbar, the small-spotted catshark and the spiny dogfish—Daniel C. Abel and Sophie A. Maycock deliver breadth without sacrificing depth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Then the breached sandbar closed and the lagoon started filling up with water, “and all of the sudden there was habitat.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
"It's probably the only festival that's dependent on air pressure, which dictates how far the tide goes out and how long we can stay on the sandbar," he said.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025
Bar push is caused when deposition on the inside of a bend forms a sandbar, which pushes the curve outward.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
Jack’s see-yah was born on the Ediz Hook—a sandbar that extends into the Strait of Juan de Fuca—in 1928.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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