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John Ismay, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024
Mobile, a high-speed littoral combat ship, was joined by vessels from the Philippines, Australia and Japan.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022
Now, in a distracted world, China proudly touts the efficiency of its surveillance state while continuing to build up its military and pursue its ambitious efforts to gain a strategic advantage along the Asian littoral.
—Lewis Libby, National Review, 6 May 2021
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The Obama administration moved a number of littoral combat ships to Singapore and deployed a rotating force of Marines to Darwin, on Australia’s north coast, giving the Pentagon more assets that could respond as needed in the region.
—John Ismay, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024
Mobile, a high-speed littoral combat ship, was joined by vessels from the Philippines, Australia and Japan.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2024
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Anyone who went to the east African littoral could choose to become Swahili, and many did.
—John M. Mugane, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2022
Now, in a distracted world, China proudly touts the efficiency of its surveillance state while continuing to build up its military and pursue its ambitious efforts to gain a strategic advantage along the Asian littoral.
—Lewis Libby, National Review, 6 May 2021
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The company secured a federal contract to run a colony of 3,500 monkeys on Morgan Island off the coast of South Carolina, also known as Monkey Island.Austin Mullen, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Consensus model has shifted more east the past 24 hours, but the core is still expected to stay off the Southwest Florida coast.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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In the south, tropical storm warnings were issued for offshore Florida waters amid Tropical Storm Rafael's approach.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Republicans have used transmission as a bargaining chip to secure provisions requiring onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing.Daniel Moore, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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Opening in the same year was the elegant Interlaken Hotel, on the shores of Twin Lakes, a gorgeous but ultimately doomed retreat for well-off visitors.James Dziezynski, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2024
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The shores of Europe were littered with wrecks from the First World War.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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The home is perched on a 70-foot-high bluff that is protected by a rock revetment to protect the shoreline from coastal erosion.Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Nov. 2024
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Jonathan Leijonhufvud View 8 Images Reaching a height of 50 m (164 ft) in Yantai, eastern China, the Sun Tower, by OPEN Architecture, cuts a remarkable figure on the shoreline.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
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The front of each matte-finish coaster features artwork depicting an image of the sandy coastline and a signpost that name-checks some of our more familiar beaches and beach cities, including Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice and Manhattan Beach.Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Lands of fire and ice In southwestern Turkey, just above the pretty coastline near the city of Antalya, there is a mountain where flames have burned since ancient times.Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024
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This tends to trigger warmer and drier winters throughout the Southwest, the central Rockies, the Gulf Coast and the eastern seaboard.Hayleigh Evans, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2024
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The bar and lounge's menu was inspired by ports all over the world and features flavors and dishes from the Mediterranean, Asia and the eastern seaboard.Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2022
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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
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Team Rhaenyra Rhaenyra is on a seashore with Syrax opposite Seasmoke and that dragon’s new rider, Addam of Hull.Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
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Where are the national parks located? All 50 states are home to other National Park Service units, like national battlefields and seashores, which are sometimes called parks.Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
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“Littoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littoral. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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