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[hwawrf, wawrf] / ʰwɔrf, wɔrf /


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In Santa Cruz, a public wharf damaged by storms in 2024 recently reopened after $1.3 million in repairs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

City hall, the slave market, and town pillory were all there, and the wharf on the East River “made it a rendezvous for pirates,” writes Sobol.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

They also tried to resuscitate the boy as the boat made its way to an ambulance waiting by a wharf.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2026

The crew blow-torched the fasteners and released the cables that held the crane to the ship, while workers on land laid temporary rails across the wharf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

The last thing I wanted to do was hang around the wharf in zero shade.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Later that decade, Avery befriended Rothko and then Gottlieb, and by 1932 all three were summering in Gloucester, spending their mornings sketching or painting the harbor, the wharfs, the sea, the beach and the bathers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

A major fire is still raging at the site and pictures show huge, billowing black clouds over the wharfs.

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2025

“But what do we do about the future? We’re not just talking about riprap and wharfs, we’re talking about being ready in many ways.”

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

Iconic wharfs, restaurants, sidewalks and roads collapsed under towering surf, while streets, parks, homes and shops were flooded by powerful waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023

For months after my father’s death, long after I had arrived in Chicago and found a home in the stained brick and wharfs of the Levee, I had imagined my father still underwater.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Shaking from a quake could damage wharves, piers, buildings and roadway above the seawall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

The port, with the help of federal and provincial funds, is spending 609 million Canadian dollars dredging the river and building new wharves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025

A neighborhood near the wharves is still known as the Irish Channel.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

China has been a major infrastructure lender to Vanuatu, donating the parliament building, stadiums and prime minister's office, as well as constructing roads and wharves.

From Reuters ● Aug. 10, 2023

V^/ome few months later, a mob assembled in Old South Meeting House; and, after a rousing word by Mr. Adams, some habited themselves as Mohawk Indians and repaired to the wharves, where they dumped tea.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson




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