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Recent Examples of wharf
Nightlife Howard Smith Wharves Once an underused stretch of industrial wharf, Howard Smith Wharves is now Brisbane’s liveliest nightlife destination.
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Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
Docked at the Clark Street Bridge in Chicago, the ship rolled over into the river at the wharf's edge.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Westerman drove several times a week to the wharf or nearby ocean overlooks in Santa Cruz, Stewart said.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
In the 2007-08 fiscal year, the port authority increased fees for five major services, including tugboats, water supply, wharf rent, container storage and container loading and unloading.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
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Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 6 Nov. 2025
Docked at the Clark Street Bridge in Chicago, the ship rolled over into the river at the wharf's edge.
—Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Westerman drove several times a week to the wharf or nearby ocean overlooks in Santa Cruz, Stewart said.
—Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
In the 2007-08 fiscal year, the port authority increased fees for five major services, including tugboats, water supply, wharf rent, container storage and container loading and unloading.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wharf
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And that’s on top of all the amenities found throughout the Poconos Mountains resort, which include indoor and outdoor pools, indoor and outdoor playgrounds, bumper boats and go-karts, disc and mini golf, and fishing docks.—
Beth Luberecki,
USA Today,
10 Feb. 2026
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The mid-block dock for trucks to load and unload?—
Robert Yaro,
New York Daily News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as groins, jetties and piers.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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Amber Savage at the local bagel shop has many fond memories of visiting the pier with her family on warm, summer days.—
Christine Sloan,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Wine is embedded in the city’s architecture, history and daily life, from grand 18th-century façades to the bustling quays of the Garonne.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Blast damage in the lower left section of a quay in the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on Tuesday.—
Colin Sheeley,
NBC news,
17 Dec. 2025
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“Wharf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wharf. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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