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Recent Examples of seawall
That would provide about $740 million every year to build seawalls.
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
That tsunami topped seawalls and eventually disabled three nuclear reactors.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 30 July 2025
The seawall offers a first-rate space for walking, jogging, biking, or rollerblading, with surrey bike rentals available for even more fun.
—Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
Step Back The mission and long-term plan behind AIM is to address the impacts of climate change, specifically by building seawalls that can protect coastal areas from rising ocean levels, Sadilek said.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
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Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
That tsunami topped seawalls and eventually disabled three nuclear reactors.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 30 July 2025
The seawall offers a first-rate space for walking, jogging, biking, or rollerblading, with surrey bike rentals available for even more fun.
—Gabi De La Rosa, Southern Living, 24 July 2025
Step Back The mission and long-term plan behind AIM is to address the impacts of climate change, specifically by building seawalls that can protect coastal areas from rising ocean levels, Sadilek said.
—Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seawall
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The pilot project can generate up to 100 kilowatts of power — enough for about 100 homes — and company officials told the Times the ultimate goal is to install steel floaters along the port’s 8-mile breakwater to generate about 60 megawatts of power, or enough for about 60,000 homes.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Oct. 2025
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And a stone jetty, or breakwater, to protect the harbor was installed in 2020.—
Julie Depenbrock,
NPR,
22 Sep. 2025
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Rip currents are typically more frequent and stronger in the vicinity of jetties, inlets, and piers.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
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These containers will face smaller price increases as they are not loaded or unloaded at the port jetties.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
15 Oct. 2025
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The front of the school bus, meanwhile, was entangled with a tree in the embankment, the body of the bus tilted completely to one side.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Three years ago this week, Hardy was on his way back from a concert in Bristol, Tennessee, when his tour bus careened off the road and rolled down an embankment.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Most of those rescues happened on the east side of Vallecito Creek, where a levee break caused rapid flooding.—
Lauren Penington,
Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2025
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Yolo County officials are urging motorists to use caution on South River Road, a levee-top roadway that stretches from West Sacramento to the Freeport Bridge along the Sacramento River, due to shoulder erosion that has created hazardous driving conditions.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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Showing Up’s potentially myopic perspective contrasts significantly from Reichardt’s Night Moves, a film about radical white environmental activists whose designs of blowing up a dam backfires, causing their inept leader Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) to erratically cover his tracks.—
Robert Daniels,
Time,
10 Oct. 2025
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The technology automatically adjusts mooring line length in response to water-level changes, maintaining consistent tension and improving the reliability of floating solar installations on dams and reservoirs.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
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Park staff partially opened the valve in July after heavy rain caused water levels to overflow the dike, raising erosion concerns.—
Mary Divine,
Twin Cities,
14 Aug. 2025
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By taking down part of the old dike and building a new one farther back, the project has given the river some breathing room, expanding the floodplain.—
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Seawall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seawall. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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