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Recent Examples of roadstead
Two light cruisers and the USS Utah lay off its starboard bow, and Battleship Row, the famed but vulnerable roadstead for the Navy’s mightiest, was on the other side of Ford Island.
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Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
The Anzio roadstead was thick with Allied ships, but the Germans owned the skies.
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Bartle Bull,
WSJ,
16 Dec. 2020
Thomas Curwen,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
The Anzio roadstead was thick with Allied ships, but the Germans owned the skies.
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Bartle Bull,
WSJ,
16 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for roadstead
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Emirati, Qatari, and Saudi firms have announced projects spanning aviation, banking, energy, ports, and real estate.
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The rooms, each named for notable past guests, show great attention to detail with floral fabrics, pillowtop beds, the latest USB ports and Bulgari toiletries in bathrooms.
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The department will also deploy counterterrorism resources, explosive detection K-9s, bomb squad personnel and heavy weapons teams, along with plain clothes officers and a harbor unit for the waterways.
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The Seaport’s history also reflects its legacy as a major harbor area.
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Austria had one good look — a header that just missed — but largely been kept at bay.
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Trim adjustment remains a routine task whether a boat sits on a trailer, approaches a dock, or enters a service bay.
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In the areas near the mouths of the rivers and the estuary, there is permanent signage with warnings and restrictive cordoning, the police noted.
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Among the dishes is blue crab plucked from the water tableside, then served rillette-style using fat from the restaurant’s estuaries.
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Today, Crater Lake National Park boasts the deepest lake in the country, at 1,943 feet, and one of the cleanest too, as there are no inlets or outlets to allow for contamination.
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Marine life concentrates most densely in the shallowest waters of this continental shelf, 100 feet deep or less, in reefs, lagoons, and coastal inlets where a person can swim and scuba dive without specialized gear.
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“Roadstead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/roadstead. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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