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  1. n. Plural form of coastline.

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  • “The rumble appeared to be linked to large ocean storms along certain coastlines, but the Californian team could not explain how waves created it.”

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  • “For instance, partial loss of ice sheets on polar land could imply metres of sea level rise, major changes in coastlines, and inundation of low-lying areas, with greatest effects in river deltas and low-lying islands.”

    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Nobel Lecture

  • “The coastlines are the quarries, the mangroves, and the flooded areas.”

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  • “Bills to help Katrina-stricken Gulf Coast residents by streamlining the insurance-claims process, making more affordable housing available, restoring coastal wetlands and giving states a bigger share of royalties on oil and gas produced off their coastlines will be among the first measures to be proposed if the Democrats take control of Congress in the November elections, members of that party's House caucus said Wednesday in New Orleans.”

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  • “Those calling for massive wind farms to be built around our coastlines are the same who object to large tidal power schemes - such as the Severn Barrage - on the grounds that they will directly affect local wildlife.”

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  • “So its very good research and its going to be important in the years to come for us to better understand what the impact of climate change on Australias coastlines will be.”

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  • “Bonds with a 50% yield, though rare, typically have a very short-term maturity and provide issuers with risk protection in areas such as coastlines, which are the most likely to be hit by a hurricane or heavy storm.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Port in the Storm: Insurers' Catastrophe Bonds

  • “If climate change is too great, natural barriers, such as coastlines, spell doom for some species.”

    The Threat to the Planet

  • “COOPER: So what kind of coastlines are most at risk?”

    CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2004

  • “Fractals commonly are associated with objects in nature, such as coastlines or snowflakes, but they have never before been seen for quantum particles.”

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