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At low-watermark the shore is all rocky, so that then there is no landing with a boat: but at high water a boat may come in over those rocks to the sandy bay which runs all along on this coast.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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Inventory turns are now up to 5.5 from a low-watermark of 3.2 turns a year and a half ago and we've taken out more than
unknown title 2009
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But the issue of underperforming higher-end discrete cards will never go away because integrated graphics set itself up as a low-watermark benchmark for competitors to surpass.
CNET News.com 2008
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"low-watermark," but there are levels between that and high-school possibilities which we cannot often measure.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various
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