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Recent Examples of wharf
Sprawling across less than 50 square miles on a peninsula, the city is packed with Victorian homes lining steep streets, buzzing with cable cars that zip between downtown and the wharf.
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Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
The wharves and warehouses along Pratt Street burned fiercely.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
Situated down a wharf, with lobstermen docking with the day’s catch right outside your window, this posh eatery is the right way to treat yourself to Maine’s ocean bounty.
—Emma Simard, Saveur, 4 Feb. 2026
He was given first aid by Water Police officers before being transported to Rose Bay wharf, where NSW Ambulance paramedics continued first aid on the victim, the NSW Police said.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
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Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Feb. 2026
The wharves and warehouses along Pratt Street burned fiercely.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
Situated down a wharf, with lobstermen docking with the day’s catch right outside your window, this posh eatery is the right way to treat yourself to Maine’s ocean bounty.
—Emma Simard, Saveur, 4 Feb. 2026
He was given first aid by Water Police officers before being transported to Rose Bay wharf, where NSW Ambulance paramedics continued first aid on the victim, the NSW Police said.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wharf
Noun
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In Connecticut, volunteers are needed to help cleanup the Long Wharf in New Haven at the canal dock boathouse.—
Stephen Underwood,
Hartford Courant,
31 Mar. 2026
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The second modular part, the media dock, clicks down onto one of two USB-C ports on the top right or left side of the keyboard.—
Aubrey Jowers,
PC Magazine,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In 1903, a vicious winter storm reduced most of the piers to splinters, and by 1906 offshore oil production at Summerland had all but ceased.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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SkyCal was overhead as a large group of people waited at the end of the pier while law enforcement personnel swept the pier.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Ten 35-pound wreckfish — enormous silver deep-water dwellers that live down to 650 feet — are filleted and bagged on a large stainless-steel table on the quay.—
NPR,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2026
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Waiting at the quay were water taxis for hotel guests.—
Vic O'Sullivan,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Wharf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wharf. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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