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an area of sea water that is separated from the ocean by a reef or sandbar
Beyond the beach there was a picturesque blue lagoon.
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Recent Examples of lagoon
Most officials linked the deaths to the die-off of seagrass in the lagoon that year, which many experts connect to polluted water.
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Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
Guests can experience horseback riding through the surf, kayaking in a peaceful lagoon, or simply soak up the sun.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Starting that spring, biologists at the Laguna San Ignacio research station recorded roughly 80 dead whales in Mexican waters, and just 41 mother-calf pairs in the lagoon.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The city banned large cruise ships from entering the lagoon in 2021 and this year there are plans to expand the tourism tax introduced for day-trippers last year.
—Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 13 Mar. 2025
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Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2025
Guests can experience horseback riding through the surf, kayaking in a peaceful lagoon, or simply soak up the sun.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Starting that spring, biologists at the Laguna San Ignacio research station recorded roughly 80 dead whales in Mexican waters, and just 41 mother-calf pairs in the lagoon.
—Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The city banned large cruise ships from entering the lagoon in 2021 and this year there are plans to expand the tourism tax introduced for day-trippers last year.
—Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lagoon
Noun
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Fifteen years after her husband’s drowning in the nearby bay, Tressilian’s days are spent in a cranky routine: grumbling over the obscene resort stationed on the opposite bluff, reading London’s gossip columns, and summoning the household help with the insistent ringing of a bedroom call bell.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
15 Apr. 2025
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Some cooks use bay leaves in the pantry to deter moths, weevils, and other pests.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
14 Apr. 2025
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Sirena, a clifftop bar and restaurant, serves fresh seafood with stunning views of the private beach cove.—
Livia Hengel,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Vertical lines on the supercar’s deeply scalloped door coves give it a sense of acceleration, even while standing still, and reflect the handsome bronze of the car’s custom wheels.—
Brett Berk,
Robb Report,
15 Apr. 2025
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Cruise ships have long been a contentious issue in Norwegian fjords, especially in UNESCO World Heritage areas like Geiranger.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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The country’s vast ice sheet, glaciers, deep fjords and abundance of marine life, including whales, are the key attractions, while pride in the local Inuit culture is also growing.—
Reuters,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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But, to their delight, the whale was last seen on the afternoon of March 25, appearing to exit the estuary.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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The latest details: Alarmingly high concentrations of heavy metals were found at Elkhorn Slough, California’s second-largest estuary.—
Sammy Roth,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Spa The Spa is a collection of treatment tents set along a creek that lends a soundtrack to your massage, facial, or body wrap.—
Maya Kachroo-Levine,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Apr. 2025
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Or Frank Lloyd Wright, with his long, often low-slung homes of concrete and red tidewater cypress, designed to harmonize with their surroundings (Fallingwater, one of his most famous works, is perched over a creek in a quiet glade outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).—
Nick Remsen,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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Indeed, veterans of the whisky world understand that turbulence and challenging periods are part of the whisky cycle, most notably seen during the whisky loch of the 1980s when distilleries had to close due to oversupply and falling demand.—
Mark Littler,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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That might include kayaking or hiking Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island, searching for seals and birdlife on the uninhabited Brion Island, exploring the rugged beauty of Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, or sailing through the legendary lochs and canals of the St. Lawrence Seaway.—
Fran Golden,
AFAR Media,
9 Apr. 2025
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So at the end of 1773, a group of Bostonians tossed the tea overboard into the harbor.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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If a cell harbors many black morphogens, for example, and a neighboring cell harbors few of them, then the molecules strive to move such that they are distributed as evenly as possible.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2025
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“Lagoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lagoon. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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