Recent Examples on the WebShe’s been trapped in Miami over fifty years, knows all too well its sunrises and sunsets and storms and dirty seawater.—David L. Ulin, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024 After more than a decade of cleanup work, the plant began discharging the water after treating it and diluting it with seawater on Aug. 24, starting a process that’s expected to take decades.—Mari Yamaguchi, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024 This material's exceptional resistance to corrosion, especially against the relentless embrace of seawater, positions it as an ideal candidate for a diver's watch, where durability is paramount.—Bhanu Chopra, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 Armed police officers and soldiers training in seawater in Fangchenggang City, China's Guangxi autonomous region, on July 24, 2023
After Mao’s death in 1976, the country started shifting its focus to economic growth rather than political struggle.—Laura He, CNN, 20 Feb. 2024 The lake cascaded into the Atlantic Ocean, where the freshwater pooled over the denser seawater, disrupting the convection current carrying warm water north from the tropics.—Zach St. George, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024 It would be built on concrete caissons, similar to stilts commonly seen in East Coast coastal communities, to allow seawater to wash under the home, according to the plans submitted to the Coastal Commission.—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024 Meanwhile, Israel’s flooding of the tunnels under parts of the Gaza Strip with seawater risks killing remaining crops, leaving the land too salty and rendering it unstable and prone to sinkholes.—Yara M. Asi, The Conversation, 15 Feb. 2024 By the mid-2000s, when Cassini saw—and sampled—telltale plumes of seawater gushing from the south pole of Enceladus, a paradigm shift was clearly at hand: oceans were lurking practically everywhere scientists looked in the outer solar system.—Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 7 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of seawater was
before the 12th century
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