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Inside a waterfront factory, workers in hairnets and blue overalls are sorting freshly caught cod and haddock, and machines process the fish into fillets, mostly bound for Europe.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Graham was meeting and greeting voters on a steamy Sunday afternoon at a waterfront venue in suburban Charleston.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
Rents are rising fastest in neighborhoods including Mission Bay, a waterfront area with newer buildings where OpenAI has offices, and SoMa, a former warehouse district where Anthropic has offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
And ever since F&M Bank Amphitheater opened earlier this summer, my social media feeds have been flooded with complaints about Long Beach’s new temporary waterfront venue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“We are right on the waterfront, and we look across the sound to the Seattle skyline and Mount Rainier. It’s a perfect spot.”
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
"It sits above Roman waterfronts so that road effectively protects a whole massive swathe of wonderful archaeology - and that would be early Roman waterfronts, medieval buildings, everything," she says.
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2026
Things are precarious all around for West Coast commercial fishermen, who worry about maintaining their working waterfronts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
“In the next decade, New York’s waterfronts are going to look very different.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Now, D.C.’s gaze has turned toward our waterfronts, including the Wharf, National Harbor and Washington Harbour in Georgetown, which are job creators and magnets for locals and tourists alike.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
From New Jersey to Alaska, reservoirs, bridges, tunnels, factories, and waterfronts were put under guard.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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