coast
noun
the land next to the sea; seashore.
Example Sentences
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“It might have been that the culture that was here was coastally adapted and didn’t need to brave, for example, a pack of dire wolves to go hunt a horse or a camel,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
A baby-faced 38-year-old, Vance had come to prominence as a friendly, Trump-skeptical conservative intellectual and coastally based venture capitalist.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2022
Of the world’s 25 biodiversity hotspots, two are in India: one along the Western Ghats mountains, which spread coastally close to Goa and Kerala; and one around Assam, in the region of the Eastern Himalayas.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 18, 2018
