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Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska
Glacier Bay National Park, in southeast Alaska, is a jaw-dropping wilderness where massive tidewater glaciers calve into icy waters and humpback whales surface with breathtaking grace.
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The Potomac, one of the good Eastern black-bass rivers, offers some 400 miles of fair-to-excellent fishing-mostly smallmouths upstream from Great Falls on the outskirts of Washington, D. C., and largemouths in the tidewater downstream.
—Arthur Grahame, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025
This, of course, was all integrated into Wright’s classic style: The home is made from brick and red tidewater cypress, with concrete floors and plaster ceilings.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
The Potomac River stretches for 380 miles and four states, starting in the Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia and following into the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2025
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USA Today, 11 June 2025
The Potomac, one of the good Eastern black-bass rivers, offers some 400 miles of fair-to-excellent fishing-mostly smallmouths upstream from Great Falls on the outskirts of Washington, D. C., and largemouths in the tidewater downstream.
—Arthur Grahame, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025
This, of course, was all integrated into Wright’s classic style: The home is made from brick and red tidewater cypress, with concrete floors and plaster ceilings.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025
The Potomac River stretches for 380 miles and four states, starting in the Alleghany Mountains of West Virginia and following into the tidewaters of the Chesapeake Bay at Point Lookout, Maryland.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidewater
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Go for a Hike at Woodlands Conservancy Hike through one of the region’s last remaining stands of bottomland hardwood forest at the Woodlands Preserve.—
Kristy Christiansen,
Southern Living,
25 Dec. 2025
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Whitmer, in November 2020, sent notice of her intention to revoke the state's 1953 easement with the company allowing the pipelines underwater on the Straits of Mackinac bottomlands.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
17 Dec. 2025
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Many major river basins, including the Colorado River Basin, are experiencing record-low season-to-date snowpack levels.—
Daniel Manzo,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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There would be a total of 14 data center buildings at the site, along with two electrical substations, a utility switchyard and stormwater detention basins, according to plans.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Much of the Texas Medical Center, including the existing Ben Taub hospital, is already in the 500-year floodplain.—
Yilun Cheng,
Houston Chronicle,
19 Mar. 2026
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The printing company, its attorneys and water experts contend city regulations clearly prohibit uses like gas stations in a floodplain.—
Judith Kohler,
Denver Post,
16 Mar. 2026
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It’s supposed to be rolling plains, prairies … with intermittent tree cover.—
Julia James,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Mar. 2026
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While the airport fell just short of 90 degrees, many communities across the plains surged into the low 90s — an extraordinary feat for March.—
Joe Ruch,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Light ballet flats are a natural answer to skinny jeans.—
Alex Sales,
Glamour,
27 Mar. 2026
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The green shoots that rise from the soil under Perry Cabot’s cultivation look a little different from the standard, brushy bunches of alfalfa and other cattle forage crops growing on the flats here north of the Colorado River.—
Brandon Loomis,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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Camouflaged in a valley speckled with just a handful of villas and farmsteads, the 16 stone houses overlook the naked dunes and sensational sunsets of Livadia Bay.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Great Rift Valley is an epic series of valleys and mountains carving its way 3,000 miles through East Africa and beyond.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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The goal was to help preserve and protect the delicate valley and its fens.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
25 Aug. 2025
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“Tidewater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidewater. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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