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Recent Examples of esplanade
As the Anaheim, Calif., park kicks off its 70th anniversary festivities, a new, colorful sculpture representing Sleeping Beauty Castle has appeared on the park's main esplanade.
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Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 16 May 2025
Outside, Sheinbaum climbed the stairs to the main esplanade, where an all-female delegation was waiting, then made her way to the lobby and saluted the flag.
—Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Fronted by the Swiss Guard, cardinals and other church leaders led the slow procession into the sunlit esplanade as a male choir chanted psalms and prayers in Latin and the great bells of the basilica tolled.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
The mid-rise hotel tower was built at the north end of the property over a long pedestal housing a soaring, double-height lobby and a vast, covered esplanade of amenities.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
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Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 16 May 2025
Outside, Sheinbaum climbed the stairs to the main esplanade, where an all-female delegation was waiting, then made her way to the lobby and saluted the flag.
—Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Fronted by the Swiss Guard, cardinals and other church leaders led the slow procession into the sunlit esplanade as a male choir chanted psalms and prayers in Latin and the great bells of the basilica tolled.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
The mid-rise hotel tower was built at the north end of the property over a long pedestal housing a soaring, double-height lobby and a vast, covered esplanade of amenities.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for esplanade
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There’s even a Lahaina Street through the heart of Makaha, Endo’s neighborhood along the Waianae coast.—
Jennifer Sinco Kelleher,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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More than 14 million apartments and houses have a substantial risk of flooding in the next 30 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office — from sea level rise and storm surge along the coasts, to heavy rain and river flooding inland.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
12 July 2025
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The Sheboygan Breakwater Light is located off the eastern coast of Wisconsin near the city of Sheboygan in Sheboygan County, at the mouth of the Sheboygan River along the Lake Michigan shoreline.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
10 July 2025
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Just outside of small town Belmont, yellow wildflowers line the entrance of a path where chestnut oak trees shade wild turkeys, blooming snowbell bushes and lake shorelines.—
Abby Pender,
Charlotte Observer,
8 July 2025
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With a double harbor set at the tip of a long and sinewy peninsula on a highly strategic coastline, Knidos grew rich from its favorable natural position and from trading wine, olive oil and vast quantities of amphorae.—
Rebecca Ann Hughes,
Forbes.com,
5 July 2025
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The state forecasts eroding coastlines will endanger $18 billion of existing homes and commercial buildings in the coming decades, and San Francisco officials have already decided to close part of one seaside highway rather than defend it.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
2 July 2025
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In Maryland, the riverside town of Ellicott City installed sirens in 2019 after a pair of deadly flash floods.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
11 July 2025
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The raging flash floods — among the nation’s worst in decades — slammed into riverside camps and homes before daybreak Friday, pulling sleeping people out of their cabins, tents and trailers and dragging them for miles past floating tree trunks and automobiles.—
Jim Vertuno,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2025
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Aside from the property’s 101 suites and villas overlooking the Chao Phraya River, the hotel's Auriga Wellness spa is a big draw here, and offers treatments inspired by the phases of the moon and traditional Thai healing practices—plus, there are riverfront therapy rooms and outdoor yoga sessions.—
John Wogan,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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On Memorial Day weekend 2015, McComb, his wife, Laura, their son Andrew, 6, and daughter Leighton, 4, were vacationing at a riverfront home in Wimberley with another family when the floods hit, pushing the home off its foundation and sending it rushing down the Blanco River.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
8 July 2025
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Pack up the car with beach supplies and spend the day at the beaches of St. George Island, Carrabelle, Dog Island, or Alligator Point.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Southern Living,
6 July 2025
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Life threatening rip currents are possible at all beaches in the region through Sunday with breaking wave heights of six feet likely.—
Joel Shannon,
USA Today,
6 July 2025
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Those observations proved less conclusive than had been hoped, but during the rest of the voyage, Cook was able to map the coastland of New Zealand before sailing west to the southeastern coast of Australia—the first record of Europeans on the continent's Eastern coastline.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
3 Feb. 2022
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Today, Tropea onions -- which bear protected geographical produce, or IGP, status -- grow on a 60-mile stretch of Calabrian coastland running from the town of Amantea down to the Capo Vaticano peninsula, below Tropea.—
Silvia Marchetti,
CNN,
8 Oct. 2022
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The Acasta Gneiss Complex, a group of rocks exposed along a riverbank nearly 200 miles (300 kilometers) north of Yellowknife, in northwestern Canada, is more widely agreed to be the planet’s oldest geological formation.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
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The falling boulder rolled from above the riverbank, hit his friend on the arm and crushed Medford, who had been fishing, the news outlet reported, citing the sheriff’s office.—
Helena Wegner,
Idaho Statesman,
10 June 2025
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“Esplanade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/esplanade. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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