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Recent Examples of tidewater
The five-hour Valdez trip is the shortest of three kayaking day trips Anadyr offers—the others visit Columbia, the second-largest tidewater glacier on the continent, and Shoup—along with multiday kayak camping trips.
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Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
The 1,500-acre tidewater plantation was originally purchased in 1793 by Major Pierce Butler, a signer of the United States Constitution whose grandsons—Pierce Mease Butler and John Mease Butler—inherited the property and the people enslaved there.
—Melissa L. Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
At the Norfolk Naval Station, headquarters of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, the Department of Defense and U.S. Navy acknowledge the risks from chronic and increasing sea level risk and have made plans to manage and adapt to tidewater risks over the next ten years.
—Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018
The interpretation, unveiled at a recent festival in the Chesapeake tidewater hamlet of Easton, is dividing the town and fueling debate over how America redefines and reimagines its ever-present past.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
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Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
The 1,500-acre tidewater plantation was originally purchased in 1793 by Major Pierce Butler, a signer of the United States Constitution whose grandsons—Pierce Mease Butler and John Mease Butler—inherited the property and the people enslaved there.
—Melissa L. Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
At the Norfolk Naval Station, headquarters of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, the Department of Defense and U.S. Navy acknowledge the risks from chronic and increasing sea level risk and have made plans to manage and adapt to tidewater risks over the next ten years.
—Kate Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2018
The interpretation, unveiled at a recent festival in the Chesapeake tidewater hamlet of Easton, is dividing the town and fueling debate over how America redefines and reimagines its ever-present past.
—Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tidewater
Noun
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There is quite a large area of bottomland forest and marshlands year round.—
Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
20 Dec. 2024
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Tennessee residents will be able to choose Red Milkweed - a native perennial found in swamps, river bottomlands and wet meadows - and Common Milkweed - another native perennial found in fields, open woods and roadsides, though less than 100,000 seed packets remain for each variety.—
Katie Nixon,
The Tennessean,
13 Oct. 2024
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.—
Richard Tribou,
Orlando Sentinel,
21 Feb. 2025
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Of particular concern are the giant reservoirs of the Colorado River basin, Lakes Mead and Powell, which remain far below capacity.—
Doyle Rice,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Each experience—canoeing across floodplains in Zimbabwe’s Mana Pools National Park; cruising down Uganda’s Kazinga Channel with one of the world’s biggest hippo populations—will upend your safari perspective.—
Alexandra Owens,
AFAR Media,
10 Feb. 2025
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Visitors can explore by hiking elevated boardwalks, paddling through calm floodplain waters or joining seasonal firefly night hikes.—
Allison Palmer,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Jan. 2025
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The maria are vast, solidified lava plains that formed between 3.2 billion and 3.6 billion years ago from volcanic activity.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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The mandate also targets oil and gas leasing in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and again revokes the conservation status of 28 million acres of public land that had been withdrawn from mineral and energy development since 1971.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
31 Jan. 2025
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Wind was blowing onto the flat from the open water of El Salto, which stretches across 25,000 acres in western Mexico near Mazatlán.—
Bob McNally,
Outdoor Life,
12 Feb. 2025
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The presentation, which marked the brand’s first NYFW show since 2018, saw Kendall wearing a pinstripe coat with square-toe slingback flats and a pair of gold aviator glasses.—
Marissa Muller,
WWD,
8 Feb. 2025
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The lithium in the brine beneath the brilliant white Atacama salt flat, which stretches out across the valley floor, has become a global resource.—
John Bartlett,
NPR,
23 Feb. 2025
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In a video from February 2017, Bishop shows off the compound, pointing out fruit trees and a cluster of tents pitched on a knoll overlooking a green valley.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
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Saving a satyr The property features a peat-bearing wetland called a fen, and the Mitchell’s satyr is only found in these rare habitats that take thousands of years to develop.—
Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
31 Dec. 2024
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Earth’s earliest wildfires may have been fitful and erratic, flickering among the amphibious flora of fens and bogs.—
Ferris Jabr,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2024
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“Tidewater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tidewater. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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