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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An inlet of the Yellow Sea on the northeast coast of China formed by the Shandong and Liaodong Peninsulas. Its western arm is Bohai Bay.

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Examples

  • Suspension is a sharp rebuke of Conoco: spills were associated with only two of at least eight platforms and facilities it has in the Bohai Sea to service the field, equipment that is separated by miles of water.

    China Puts Stop to Conoco Work James T. Areddy 2011

  • A 7.5 magnitude earthquake in 1976, thought to have killed at least a quarter of a million people, destroyed the city of Tangshan, which sits near China's northeast coast about 300 kilometers across the Bohai Sea from the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant under construction in the city of Dalian.

    China, Also on Fault Lines, Faces New Atomic Scrutiny James T. Areddy 2011

  • China is building a plant in Dalian, across the Bohai Sea from Tangshan, a city that was leveled in 1976 by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake.

    Reactors on Fault Lines Getting Fresh Scrutiny Ben Casselman 2011

  • The highest-tech effort yet to ease China's water crisis sits between a wide, flat grid of salt farms and two giant cooling towers that rise up from a vast expanse of reclaimed land on the western shore of the Bohai Sea.

    Can the sea solve China's water crisis? 2011

  • Dong Jianyue, said in the statement Guangdong Development Bank will focus its outlet expansion in the next few years in the eastern Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, and in the northeastern area around the Bohai Sea.

    Guangdong Bank to Pursue IPO 2010

  • Dong Jianyue, said in the statement Guangdong Development Bank will focus its outlet expansion in the next few years in the eastern Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, and in the northeastern area around the Bohai Sea.

    Guangdong Bank to Pursue IPO 2010

  • Dong Jianyue, said in the statement Guangdong Development Bank will focus its outlet expansion in the next few years in the eastern Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, and in the northeastern area around the Bohai Sea.

    Guangdong Bank to Pursue IPO 2010

  • Dong Jianyue, said in the statement Guangdong Development Bank will focus its outlet expansion in the next few years in the eastern Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, and in the northeastern area around the Bohai Sea.

    Guangdong Bank to Pursue IPO 2010

  • Dong Jianyue, said in the statement Guangdong Development Bank will focus its outlet expansion in the next few years in the eastern Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, and in the northeastern area around the Bohai Sea.

    Guangdong Bank to Pursue IPO 2010

  • Dong Jianyue, said in the statement Guangdong Development Bank will focus its outlet expansion in the next few years in the eastern Yangtze River Delta, near Shanghai, and in the northeastern area around the Bohai Sea.

    Guangdong Bank to Pursue IPO 2010

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