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tide pool

American  
Or tidepool

noun

  • tide pools
    plural
  1. tidal pool.


tide pool Scientific  

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Or the parfaits served at Kamebishi Co., one of Japan’s oldest soy sauce brewers, where soy sauce gelato melts into something creamy and briny, like a tide pool made decadent.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025

She has said problems arose after she dropped her phone in a tide pool on 2020’s Fourth of July holiday and sought help from the city’s information technology department.

From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023

Like a powder-coated bee spreading pollen from plant to plant, isopods spread spermatia throughout a tide pool as they travel between seaweed clumps.

From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2022

That relatively hefty punishment made prosecutors and then wardens reluctant to go after someone who, for example, may have unknowingly pocketed a starfish from an off-limits tide pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2016

He will wade in a tide pool up to the chest without feeling damp, but a drop of rain water on his head makes him panicky.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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