reef
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The film cuts to a hummingbird sipping nectar from a flower on a cactus, a sea turtle floating over a coral reef, pink flamingos on a green lake, a snowflake, a butterfly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
The reef is home to a small Philippine military outpost aboard the BRP Sierra Madre, a rusting World War Two-era ship deliberately grounded there in 1999 to assert Manila's claim to the territory.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
The tide was lower than expected, so the landing craft were hung up on a reef.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
He said Fishguard residents had told him the ship could be left for scrap, while others believe it might become a reef.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026
I did not even go back to the reef for my canoe, though I did take the shaft and the head of the spear, which had cost me much labor, and the sinew line.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
Vocabulary lists containing reef
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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