shorefront

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Recent Examples of shorefront And both suggested staying at the shorefront Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel, which is among the nicer properties in the area. — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 9 May 2026 The shorefront is lined with some 400 buildings, including high-rise hotels and villas that can accommodate around 20,000 guests, according to North Korean state media. — Se Eun Gong, NPR, 5 July 2025 And in 2018, the Christies bought a multimillion-dollar shorefront home in Bay Head, one of the more exclusive towns on the Jersey Shore. — Alexandra Berzon, New York Times, 16 June 2023
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  1. waterfront
  2. oceanfront
  3. beach
  4. beachfront
  5. shoreline
  6. seaside
Noun
  • Coinciding with the event is the Nights of Lights celebration (November 21–January 8), when tiny white lights illuminate the town’s architecture, oak trees, and waterfront—including the Bridge of Lions, Lightner Museum, and Plaza de la Constitución.
    — Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Here were once waterfront villas, a cathedral, a busy market frequented by tourists.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of waterfront
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  • The rooms Rooms are clean and bright, content to sit back, relax, and let the killer oceanfront views do much of the work where possible; first order of business are massive windows and glass doors leading out onto generous balconies.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Work at the oceanfront building has been underway for five years.
    — Joan Murray, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of oceanfront
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  • This included landings on untouched white sand beaches, in the shadow of immense glaciers, with ice floes drifting quietly offshore.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Ruby Mint, the women’s beach accessories brand, offers premium beach towels, beach bags, slings, pouches and sarongs.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of beach
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  • New Skydance content sales chief David Decker was all smiles at the WBD stand, able to look over and see his new Paramount colleagues just along the beachfront.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Saxon testified that West planned to turn the luxury beachfront home, designed by prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando, into an off-the-grid bunker.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of beachfront
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  • California is flush with dumb money and bad judgment, and an insatiable romance with an epic 1,200-mile shoreline.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Jackie, who was estimated to be around 14 years old, died nearly a month after she was rescued from the Big Bear Lake shoreline, where she was found after being seen in a fight with two subadult eagles in July.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of shoreline
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  • Prosecutors at the time accused Brand of raping a woman in the English seaside area of Bournemouth in 1999.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026
  • The series shot in Victoria, British Columbia, standing in for the show’s small seaside town.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2026
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“Shorefront.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shorefront. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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