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Recent Examples of littoral
Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
Workers also will repair the USS Kansas City, one of the 16 high-speed littoral combat ships that are homeported in San Diego.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
The Navy had five small ships — two destroyers and three littoral combat ships — in the waters off Iran as of Tuesday.
—Konstantin Toropin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
As the map shows, the vessel is among naval assets in the region such as the destroyers USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, USS Sampson, the cruiser USS Lake Erie and the littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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The carrier strike group, which brought roughly 5,700 additional service members, joined three destroyers and three littoral combat ships that were already in the region.
—Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
Workers also will repair the USS Kansas City, one of the 16 high-speed littoral combat ships that are homeported in San Diego.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2026
The Navy had five small ships — two destroyers and three littoral combat ships — in the waters off Iran as of Tuesday.
—Konstantin Toropin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2026
As the map shows, the vessel is among naval assets in the region such as the destroyers USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, USS Sampson, the cruiser USS Lake Erie and the littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for littoral
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These could also be used to threaten ships moving toward Taiwan or parts of coastal China.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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For the three larger north coastal school districts, the ratio of salary to enrollment is comparable.—
Marsha Sutton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Epstein significantly expanded the living spaces, adding a larger pool, new cabanas, a massive sundial and a bizarre temple-like structure overlooking the island’s southwest coast.—
Isabelle Chapman,
CNN Money,
13 Mar. 2026
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The clash at sea, about a nautical mile off the Cuban coast, resulted in the death of several of the men in the Florida vessel.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The unit includes three rigs in federal waters, offshore and onshore pipelines, and the Las Flores Canyon Processing Facility.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Mar. 2026
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The Biden administration sought to ramp up offshore wind as a climate change solution.—
Jennifer McDermott,
Hartford Courant,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The shoreline paradise experience begins once guests step inside its cottages and coastal captain homes.—
Morgan Rizzo,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2026
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Visitors are filling the shoreline along A1A to soak up the South Florida sun and enjoy the peak of the vacation season.—
Michele Eve Sandberg,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Mar. 2026
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Some forecast models suggest winds of 90–100 mph about 3,000 feet above the surface, particularly near the southeast New England coastline.—
Jacob Wycoff,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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Beyond Bahía del Águila, Cape Froward will likely remain a playground only for intrepid backpackers—those capable of wild camping, carrying heavy loads, and navigating the tide charts needed to cross narrow coastlines and three broad rivers.—
Mark Johanson,
Outside,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Orlando led the way among Florida airports amid the more than 6,000 flights canceled nationwide as heavy snowfall and blizzard conditions slam the northeastern seaboard.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
23 Feb. 2026
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Southwestern states, the Gulf Coast, and much of the eastern seaboard are expected to be drier than average.—
Brandi D. Addison,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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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Reparations have been a periodic topic of debate since the waning days of the Civil War, when Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman promised 40 acres and a mule to formerly enslaved families in a swath of confiscated Southern coastland.—
Lee Hawkins and Douglas Belkin,
WSJ,
25 Mar. 2022
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Yet, violence on the pickleball courts happened at a genteel country club in a gated community in Port Orange, Florida, a seashore community of some 66,000 residents along the Atlantic Ocean, just south of the spring break mecca, Daytona Beach.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Feb. 2026
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Although the views of mountains and seashores might inspire a degree of travel envy from viewers stuck at home in the cold winter, I was most engaged by the architectural details of cityscapes from Cofield’s home turf in Brooklyn.—
Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Littoral.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littoral. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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