whitecap

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Recent Examples of whitecap Vincent tied his kayak to ours, then steered us safely across the whitecaps to the mainland. Jacqueline Kehoe, Travel + Leisure, 23 Jan. 2025 From a reading delivered in November in Richmond, Virginia. e began to figure it out on day eleven or twelve of the seven-day trip, the slate and obsidian waves rolling under our stern, the crispy hoarfrost of whitecap foam seeding in our beards, the wind spitting ice in our eyes. Mark Richard, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 This is the largest whitecap on what has been a massive wave of consolidation this year in the global insurance sector. Kia Kokalitcheva, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024 It was built as a global cruising yacht, though its ability to excel in stiff winds and whitecaps has led to success on the competitive regatta circuit. Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 13 June 2024 See All Example Sentences for whitecap
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Noun
  • See the water from above by hanging ten with a surf lesson from Hot Wax Surf Shop or testing your balance on a stand-up paddle board.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 June 2025
  • Pacific Beach, long celebrated for its sun, surf, eating and drinking scene, could be embracing a new identity as a cultural destination.
    Sierra Knoch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • Aggressive rule breakers or not, Brömmelstroet casts doubt on the urban potential for AVs in Europe.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • In the down moments, the Princess of Wales chatted amiably with Bernard Morgan, 101, a veteran who worked as a code breaker during the conflict.
    Danica Kirka, Twin Cities, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • Ever since November, the Reyes family has lived here, beneath tarpaulin and nipa palm, wedged between crashing waves and a coastal highway in northeastern Luzon.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
  • The legislation was still being negotiated hours before it was brought to the floor for a House vote, with Johnson eventually relenting to the $40,000 figure after a wave of last-minute bartering.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • In the scope was one of the many tiny fish bones that were found that day, probably belonging to a small comber or a wrasse.
    Paul Greenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The destructive combers continued to undermine dwellings near the water’s edge at West Newport Beach.
    Scott Harrison, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2019
Noun
  • Sweeney topped it off with dark angular sunglasses, and her blonde hair in loose, blown out curls.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 4 June 2025
  • The drawing featured a bald-headed stick woman with squiggly lines coming from the ears—meant to represent curls.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 June 2025

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“Whitecap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whitecap. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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