as in shore
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as in to flow
to move or proceed smoothly and readily
coasting along easily in the light traffic
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Recent Examples of coast
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
This project was approved in late 2023 and is being built off the coast of Long Island, N.Y.
Trump has long opposed wind power, complaining about impacts to birds and views and even baselessly claiming in 2019 that wind power noise can cause cancer.
—Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
When the president returned to the White House in January, Trump was coasting with positive numbers, but in the last couple of weeks, his approval ratings have dipped across the polls.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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Noun
It’s set in 1902, in a Gullah community on an island off the coast of Georgia, where a large extended family is preparing to move to the North.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
This project was approved in late 2023 and is being built off the coast of Long Island, N.Y.
Trump has long opposed wind power, complaining about impacts to birds and views and even baselessly claiming in 2019 that wind power noise can cause cancer.
—Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
After losing to UMass in overtime last Thursday, the pair turned pro and immediately suited up for the Blackhawks on Sunday night, just coasting on adrenaline.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
When the president returned to the White House in January, Trump was coasting with positive numbers, but in the last couple of weeks, his approval ratings have dipped across the polls.
—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coast
Verb
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The rich sat on deck while the poor were squeezed in the hold below, with no place to relieve themselves, so excrement, vomit, and other wastes flowed down into the lower areas.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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The liquor flows so freely that the rest room nearly becomes a vomitorium.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
19 Apr. 2025
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Throughout the 26 miles of coastline, loggerhead sea turtles come ashore to nest and lay eggs from May through August.—
Grace Haynes,
Southern Living,
12 Apr. 2025
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The United States has the highest number of commercial helicopters in the world, USA Today reports, with most concentrated in tourist areas known for stunning aerial vistas like Manhattan, the Grand Canyon and along the coastlines of Hawaii.—
Mackenzie Schmidt,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Verb
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In the seventh, Fernando Tatis Jr. crushed a solo home run that sailed over the left field fence and onto the new two-story A’s club house, a 406-foot shot for a Padres 5-3 lead, and A’s ace Luis Severino dropped to 0-2 on the season despite an otherwise solid outing.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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The cruise line also recently began operating Carnival Adventure and Carnival Encounter, which previously sailed for the P&O Cruises Australia brand before it was folded into Carnival.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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Only after the worst mass extinction of all time, as Earth’s ecosystems struggled to recover from intense global warming spurred by volcanoes, did reptiles began to live by the shoreline and become ever more at home in the water.—
Riley Black,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Apr. 2025
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However, rising water levels are expected to carry debris that was once on the shoreline out into open waters.—
Asher Redd,
FOXNews.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Texas officials disputed Mexico’s claim that the bodies were tangled in the buoys and said only one body was found and that the person drowned upstream and drifted downstream toward the buoys.—
Anna Giaritelli,
The Washington Examiner,
16 Apr. 2025
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One of the reasons the forward P/E did not fall as much as trailing P/Es is that earnings estimates drifted lower, Clissold noted.—
Yun Li,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2025
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The pair both showed up to their second date on the beach with thoughtful gifts and eventually shared their first kiss before Tyler met Madison's family.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
10 Apr. 2025
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The Deep End venue is part of The Great Escape’s beach site located on Madeira Drive.—
Thomas Smith,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Reserve guard Payton Pritchard added 22 points off the bench as the Celtics cruised to victory.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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At the bow, a low-slung sofa and a selection of chairs offer exceptional views while the boat is cruising around her native cruising grounds of Thailand.—
Katia Damborsky,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 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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“Coast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coast. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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