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seaboard

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as in seacoast

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Recent Examples of seaboard These competing priorities continue to collide within the PJM regional grid, which covers a vast swath of the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina through Pennsylvania, extending westward all the way into Illinois. — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Here in the United States, El Niños typically result in wetter, warmer winters for the West Coast and a milder hurricane season for the Atlantic seaboard. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 June 2026 In addition to prices keeping many fans away, many USA fans on the eastern seaboard will be thousands of miles away from Team USA’s three group games in Los Angeles (where the Americans play twice) and Seattle. — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 6 June 2026 On France’s Atlantic seaboard, where magnificent beaches have powerful riptides, officials reported a rash of emergencies in the surf, with two drowning deaths on Sunday at popular resorts in the Gironde region in the southwest. — ABC News, 26 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for seaboard

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Noun

Outside, the landscape is a familiar tapestry of yellowing grasses, eucalyptus, oaks, and waves from a west-facing seacoast.

— Joe Mathews, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
There have been multiple sightings of a black bear in some unusual locations on the seacoast of New Hampshire and in southern Maine.

— Neal Riley, CBS News, 9 June 2026

Definition of seacoast

Noun

Should cabin fever somehow strike, the hotel can arrange adventures further afield, from whale-watching and boat trips along the Costa Del Sol coast to private hikes through the Andalusian mountains and even cheesemaking at a local goat farm.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2026
Long, planetary waves push the warm water to our coast and also raise the sea level, according to Clarissa Anderson, director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of coast

Noun

Though a seashore and park can be different in some respects, two laws dating to the 1970s direct the National Park Service to manage and regulate parks and seashores using the same standards.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Long after all humans have vanished from our planet, some extragalactic visitors might land gently on an empty seashore, throw a bucket into the sea and haul up samples of bacteria.

— Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of seashore

Noun

Rising sea levels with climate change are already inundating seaside roads, railways, and neighborhoods in California.

— Justine Calma, The Verge, 6 Oct. 2026
Already, waves are approaching a seaside rail line and oceanfront homes were damaged during swells last month tied to Hurricane Marie.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of seaside

Noun

Nothing terribly exciting is happening inside this three-bedroom, but there’s lots of light and a respectable amount of space, and the beach is just a few minutes away.

— Nora Deligter, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2026
Meanwhile, a swell from Hurricane Rachel is expected to bring elevated surf of 5 to 6 feet to area beaches on Tuesday through Thursday, according to the weather service forecast.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of beach

Noun

The state’s coastlines have been inundated with high surf for much of the summer, leading to severe erosion at some of the state’s most popular beaches.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
But the wild and remote coastline’s dramatic transformation had long been expected, according to NPS.

— Charlotte Reck, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of coastline

Noun

Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.

— Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
The storm is projected to move slowly up the coastland and could bring torrential rain over several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

— Juan A. Lozano, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021

Definition of coastland

Noun

Guests must either fly into Nassau and take a 10-minute flight to Fresh Creek Airport, or book one of the property’s Coco seaplanes from Fort Lauderdale with a direct route to its iconic shoreline.

— Joey Skladany, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Which other creature would have laid its eggs in such a place—which other creature would have had that distant memory of a shoreline buried deep inside?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

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