tidewater

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Recent Examples of tidewater Additionally, over 500 tidewater gobies were saved from a lagoon at the base of the creek in a separate effort. Anton Sorokin, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025 And this piece by Times staff writer Lila Seidman about a group of biologists saving hundreds of tidewater goby reminded me how cute fish can be. Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025 Topanga Creek, a biodiversity hot spot that drains into the Santa Monica Bay, is the last refuge for the coastal range’s steelhead and supports a population of tidewater gobies recently estimated to be in the tens of thousands. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025 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. Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tidewater
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Noun
  • Most worked on farms — including harvesting potatoes on about 2,000 acres of Missouri River bottomland.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Often, deer that bed in flatter creek or river bottomlands bed close to the water.
    Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Going towards more than 900 infiltration basins, nearly 300 rain gardens and more than 200 new trees, the investment will absorb 122.5 million gallons of rainwater, the equivalent of 184 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
    Jeff Roth, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Mississippi River: Threatened by FEMA’s uncertain future and role in guiding floodplain protections and maintaining infrastructure that protects river health.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Residents have questioned whether repairing seawalls would remove the neighborhood's floodplain designation, which is set by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    Dana Afana, Detroit Free Press, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But some people don't want to leave Steve Rodriguez lives in a flood plain.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Ali's community is comprised of seasonal migrants who travel yearly to herd their sheep, mostly in the plains of neighboring Punjab province.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Similar to mesh ballet flats, another warm-weather shoe trend that plays with sheer materials, jelly sandals offer all-important airflow and comfort.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Wells also said his illness wasn’t chicken wing-related after flats and drumsticks sidelined Cody Bellinger during the Yankees’ last road trip.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Multiple rooms in the house also feature floor-to-ceiling windows, giving sweeping views of the rolling mountains and valleys.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Between 24 and seven million years ago, shifting tectonic plates caused to alps to rise up and caused the collapse of the valley floor, allowing water from the Mediterranean to enter.
    Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 May. 2025.

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