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Recent Examples of pier
The second victim’s body washed up about 15 blocks north of the pier April 11, prosecutors said.
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
But warmth and good feeling, Betancourt comes to discover, can flourish just as easily in bathhouses or under the piers, on iPhone screens or in the affectionate gaze of a nude portraitist.
—Jake Nevins, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
While there will be six distinct dining options, locals and visitors will flock to the hotel’s restaurant located directly on the pier.
—Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
The Santa Monica Pier will be open, along with its Pacific Park amusement rides, though individual vendors on the pier might be closed.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
But warmth and good feeling, Betancourt comes to discover, can flourish just as easily in bathhouses or under the piers, on iPhone screens or in the affectionate gaze of a nude portraitist.
—Jake Nevins, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
While there will be six distinct dining options, locals and visitors will flock to the hotel’s restaurant located directly on the pier.
—Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
The Santa Monica Pier will be open, along with its Pacific Park amusement rides, though individual vendors on the pier might be closed.
—Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pier
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The new dock also enables 2.5-hour fast charging so that the 10R can top itself back off and keep cleaning.—
Anthony Karcz,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Activities include dock diving for dogs, lure courses, beer garden, a variety of food trucks and shopping, pet products and pet adoption opportunities.—
Joe Rassel,
Orlando Sentinel,
22 Jan. 2025
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Designed to evoke the Pantheon, the rotunda’s curved sandstone walls are divided by fluted Doric pilasters with wreaths of olive branches carved in the frieze above.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
20 Jan. 2025
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Though more stately in its setting of classical pilasters and marble floors, the lobby El Bar del Majestic is pretty hopping too with live piano music.—
John Oseid,
Forbes,
17 Dec. 2024
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However, meteorologists say this next storm will not bring swells as strong as those that overwhelmed the wharf Monday.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Dec. 2024
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Three construction workers serving as project managers and leads for the work fell into the ocean when the wharf collapsed.—
Hannah Wiley,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2025
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The highway district ordered an emergency closure Friday after an evaluation revealed that the bridge, which connects Southeast Boise to Harris Ranch and the Barber Valley, had widespread decay in nearly half of the bridge’s pillars, which could result in a catastrophic collapse.—
Nick Rosenberger,
Idaho Statesman,
1 Feb. 2025
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These two programs are part of AHF’s four pillars, representing education and specialization, respectively.—
Kara Markley Sterling,
USA TODAY,
31 Jan. 2025
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But security and logistical concerns — and an outcry from booksellers along the city’s picturesque quays — have led the government to progressively scale back its ambitions.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Mar. 2024
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The welcome also included a cannon salute and music by Sweden’s Royal Guards, lined up on the quay at the foot of the Swedish royal palace.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 May 2024
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This column originally ran in the Washington Free Beacon.—
Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
1 Feb. 2025
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Two sharp non-Padres scouts, speaking in this column at the time, predicted that Cease would have a better season than reigning Cy Young award winner Blake Snell.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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Six weeks after the Pacific disaster, a portion of railing or stateroom stanchion washed ashore.—
Joel Sams,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Jan. 2025
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Image That was the case at Little Rock National Airport in Arkansas in 1999, when American Airlines Flight 1420 smashed into stanchions holding lights that directed planes just off the runway.—
River Akira Davis,
New York Times,
30 Dec. 2024
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“Pier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pier. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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