corniche

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Recent Examples of corniche Instead, an occasionally bleak corniche winds down the coast from a state-of-the-art seaport — strategically placed 70 kilometers from the Strait of Hormuz — past a dusty, sunbaked town of old office towers, hotels, the obligatory shopping mall, and streets of low-rise shops and houses. Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025 On Beirut’s seaside corniche, Mohammad Mohammad from the village of Marwahin in southern Lebanon was strolling with his three children. Ghaith Alsayed, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024 That’s when Etihad Airways will link Atlanta to Abu Dhabi with its dazzling corniche, outpost of the famed Louvre museum and, soon, the capital of the United Arab Emirates’ own Sphere. Edward Russell, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2024 Forty-eight-year-old Mustafa Mazloum lay on a piece of cardboard under the shade of a tree in the grassy median along the city’s famed seaside corniche. Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024 Families rest on Beirut's corniche after fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern suburb Monday. Zoya Awky, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024 Walking shirtless on the corniche with his elderly father, Othman said a lifetime under multiple wars had strengthened him and his countrymen. Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024 To be sure, there are no Havels in Egypt, and Washington is not Soviet-era Moscow -- but the analogy rings true enough for those people in Cairo's Tahrir Square or the Alexandria corniche who saw U.S.-made F-16s fly overhead or were choked by tear gas produced in the United States. Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 2 Feb. 2011 The company’s other ranking property is Four Seasons Hotel Cairo at Nile Plaza, a stately tower on Cairo’s riverside corniche that comes in at No. 5. Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for corniche
Noun
  • Some drove for hours to get there, while others simply walked in off the street.
    Rachel Pearson, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • Haunted by an incident in Boston several years earlier, Tim seems content to walk around the darkened streets, ensuring the town’s small businesses are locked and secured.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Obama has had several avenues (in Florida, Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio) and boulevards (in California, Florida, Georgia and Missouri) named after him.
    Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2025
  • La Vista was one of dozens of hotels built along Colfax from the 1930s through the 1960s, when the 27-mile boulevard — also a highway called U.S. 40 — was the gateway for tourists heading to the mountains.
    Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • The project aims to open the new highway crossing by 2032.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
  • The highway in the area has been washed away, the outlet also reported.
    Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • According to the stewards, Bearman slowed down before accelerating into the pit entry road at 260 kmph.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
  • People have died in Kerr County and roads were flooding in Kerrville, a city of 25,000 people about 60 miles northwest of San Antonio, authorities said.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Routinely vacuuming and doing quick sweeps with your wet mop can help tide you over until the kids are back in school or your house becomes a little less of a thoroughfare.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
  • Back in Boone, the 1850 Hotel is a 20-suite hotel smack in the heart of town on King Street, Boone’s main thoroughfare.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The plot of land in the project is near a library, the freeway and a recreation center.
    Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 3 July 2025
  • The judge added that Brewer was shot while on a freeway in 2018, and the bullet is still lodged in his chest. Brewer declined to speak on his behalf in court.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • The underlying cause of nearly all heart attacks is clogging of the arteries with cholesterol (atherosclerosis).
    Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
  • The bad cholesterol jams up the works and creates a blockage in the arteries and blood vessels, causing a heart attack or stroke.
    Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • From an overhead view, the sight is somewhat jarring — a wide expressway and railroad track dividing the course essentially in half.
    Noah Trister, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2025
  • Homicide data from the Illinois State Police, which patrols the city’s expressways, also is not included here.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025

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“Corniche.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corniche. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.

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