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Recent Examples of breakwater
In 2024, 30,000 gallons of sewage flowed to the beach at the San Gabriel River Jetty to the Anaheim Bay breakwater from a Los Angeles County Sanitation spill.
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Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
Specific measures include restoring 114 miles of breakwaters and 12.32 miles of oyster reef.
—Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 4 June 2025
This could, for example, include investing in reforestation to store more carbon or restoring oyster reefs to function as a breakwater or to improve water quality.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
In the early 2000s, authorities began building infrastructure in the lagoon, including a breakwater at the mouth of Cerro Hermoso, where the town of El Zapotalito is located.
—Gwendolina Duval, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
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Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 6 June 2025
Specific measures include restoring 114 miles of breakwaters and 12.32 miles of oyster reef.
—Suzanne Wright, USA Today, 4 June 2025
This could, for example, include investing in reforestation to store more carbon or restoring oyster reefs to function as a breakwater or to improve water quality.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
In the early 2000s, authorities began building infrastructure in the lagoon, including a breakwater at the mouth of Cerro Hermoso, where the town of El Zapotalito is located.
—Gwendolina Duval, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for breakwater
jetty
Noun
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Beachgoers also are told not to venture onto piers, jetties, breakwalls or other shoreline structures.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 July 2025
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Longshore currents can sweep swimmers and surfers into rip currents, piers, jetties, and other hazardous areas.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 July 2025
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“Breakwater.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breakwater. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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