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beaching

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verb

present participle of beach
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Noun
  • The stranding took place at Bigbury Beach in South Devon, about 230 miles southwest of London, according to a statement from the Devon Wildlife Trust, a local conservation charity.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Talking things through with them can be comforting and grounding.
    Barton Goldsmith, AJC.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Lewkowitz opened the discussion by grounding the conversation in history, noting that cotton has remained a viable and desired resource for seven millennia.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The animal begins wrecking the fields and terrorizing the people.
    Perin Gürel, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The tornado left a trail of damage in Hillsdale, Kansas, Monday night, wrecking an RV park, toppling power lines, leveling homes and destroying a storage facility near West 255th Street.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Last year, a Florida man stumbled upon a shipwreck believed to date back 150 years.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Prior to 2019, only four underwater archaeological sites were known in the area, and only one of those could be considered the result of a shipwreck, according to the researchers.
    Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Downstairs, a styling session for the fall 2026 collection; up here, on the fourth floor, almost every inch of space is taken by patternmakers, bolts of fabric, designers scuttling about, and racks and more racks of clothes.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Paramount cliched its $31-a-share in cash merger for WBD on February 27, scuttling Warner’s previous agreement with Netflix.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Apr. 2026
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“Beaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beaching. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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