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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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In 1852, Congress appropriated $15,000 for Waukegan Harbor improvements that included a breakwater with an elevated catwalk parallel to the shore to protect the harbor, in addition to navigation aids.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2025
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The federal government's lawsuit hinges on a section in the U.S. Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 that says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must sign off on any plans to place a wharf, pier, boom breakwater, bulkhead, jetty or other structures in navigable waters.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American-Statesman,
15 May 2024
Noun
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Rock jetties can be deadly locations in such conditions, so stay off the rocks.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacramento Bee,
18 Mar. 2025
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Surf anglers can cast from the beach jetty at Murrells Inlet.—
Casey Barber,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Officers found Sharkey’s car, a white 2019 Chevrolet Spark, at the bottom of an embankment on the side of the highway.—
Kendrick Calfee,
Kansas City Star,
22 Mar. 2025
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The man and his dog spent the night trapped in the wreck in the woods about 30 feet down an embankment from the highway, the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacramento Bee,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The federal government, in association with the state of Louisiana, spent approximately $15 billion rebuilding a series of drainage canals, water pumping stations, and levees that attempt to protect local households from storms.—
Carlos Waters,
CNBC,
12 Feb. 2025
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As the final minutes began to bleed off the clock, the levee finally collapsed for Shrewsbury, as Richardson fired home a rocket through traffic to put Hingham ahead for good at 3-2.—
Brendan Connelly,
Boston Herald,
2 Mar. 2025
Noun
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China has expanded fast in the region, building or acquiring Latin American critical infrastructure such as ports including in Panama and Peru, roads, dams, electricity grids, even expanding its space capabilities with at least 16 facilities in the region, according to Newsweek research.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Russia also destroyed the nearby Kakhovka dam, emptying the reservoir that supplied water to cool the plant.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN,
20 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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His brave stand, like the legendary Dutch hero whose finger in the dike blocked a flood, still holds back the efforts of Putin, Xi Jinping, and their allies to undermine democracy — in the Baltics, Poland, Western Europe, and Taiwan, and in Trump’s United States.—
Trudy Rubin,
The Mercury News,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Seawall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seawall. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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