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Recent Examples of seawall
Found mostly in southern Florida, iguanas stick to rocky areas like seawalls and protective riprap barriers.
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Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
Of course there will be lines of defense, such as seawalls, and sandbags.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Part of the seawall by the pier was washed out, as was a section of the road on the east tip of the island, Cozzie said.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
The idea of painting the back of the seawall to showcase the area’s marine habitat was floated as well.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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Alan Clemons, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
Of course there will be lines of defense, such as seawalls, and sandbags.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
Part of the seawall by the pier was washed out, as was a section of the road on the east tip of the island, Cozzie said.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 24 Jan. 2025
The idea of painting the back of the seawall to showcase the area’s marine habitat was floated as well.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seawall
Noun
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Its first civil works project in the Philadelphia region was the construction of a breakwater near Cape Henlopen, Delaware, in 1829.—
Todd Aagaard,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2025
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SailGP saw 12 teams on one start line for the first time Saturday, and within the confines of the breakwater in the Port of Los Angeles, the racetrack would be congested, possibly the tightest yet seen.—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
12 Apr. 2025
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In the early evening of March 23, authorities intercepted two more migrant smuggling vessels, the first near the jetty in Mission Beach and the second several miles off the coast.—
Alex Riggins,
Mercury News,
6 Apr. 2025
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Footage showed the mangled wreckage on an embankment on the side of the highway.—
Anthony Solorzano,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Beltram’s truck hit their car, sending it down an embankment, crushing the passenger side compartment of the car, according to the District Attorney’s Office.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Image Most of the storm’s damage so far has been caused by floodwaters that overtopped riverbanks and levees, surged through streets and inundated the basements and ground floors of buildings.—
Patrick J. Lyons,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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Dams and levees lead to less frequent flooding, but erosion and deforestation mean more catastrophic floods when these barriers are breached.—
Nikil Saval,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Studies of dams in Brazil show that deforestation caused by the dams reduce their potential for power generation by up to 10%, which while sounding modest, means for one plant, lost revenue of $21 million.—
Suwanna Gauntlett Upjohn,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Its leaders agreed to build the dam six feet higher so that the reservoir had enough space to store 5,000 acre-feet of water to be used for environmental health purposes on South Boulder Creek, which flows out of the bottom of the dam.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The fifth season, then, premiered in the noxious contrail of the Dobbs decision, which silenced those who believed a 1973 Supreme Court case could serve as a permanent finger in the political dike.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Apr. 2025
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Miss Maynard’s class is building Holland on a small scale in one of their sandbox tables with dikes, towers, windmills, boys with wooden shoes and girls with flaxen hair.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Seawall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seawall. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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