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- adjective Not
swimmable ; that cannot beswum .
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Examples
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It turns out that this was causing excessive algae growth, killing fish and other creatures, and was rendering these waters unswimmable.
Paula Crossfield: The EPA: Cleaning Up Crappy Water Since 1970 Paula Crossfield 2011
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As I said, I bought the carp hoping they'd control the weeds in the pond, which can be basically unswimmable come July.
Swimming With the Fish Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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It turns out that this was causing excessive algae growth, killing fish and other creatures, and was rendering these waters unswimmable.
Paula Crossfield: The EPA: Cleaning Up Crappy Water Since 1970 Paula Crossfield 2011
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It turns out that this was causing excessive algae growth, killing fish and other creatures, and was rendering these waters unswimmable.
Paula Crossfield: The EPA: Cleaning Up Crappy Water Since 1970 Paula Crossfield 2011
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She tells us how she conceived of, planned, and trained for each, and re-creates for us the experience of swimming (almost) unswimmable bodies of water, including her most recent astonishing one-mile swim to Antarctica in thirty-two-degree water without a wet suit.
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It turns out that this was causing excessive algae growth, killing fish and other creatures, and was rendering these waters unswimmable.
Paula Crossfield: The EPA: Cleaning Up Crappy Water Since 1970 Paula Crossfield 2011
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Lewis Gordon Pugh loves to pioneer new swimming routes around or between landmarks once thought unswimmable.
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Apparently that doesn't make the water unswimmable.
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The tourism industries of southern Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and the Florida Panhandle are of course reeling from the effects of BP's catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill, now more than two months old: precious marshes poisoned, miles of beach fouled, and some waters unswimmable.
David Paul Appell: Great Gulf Coast Beach Vacations, Even Without the Beach David Paul Appell 2010
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Lewis Gordon Pugh loves to pioneer new swimming routes around or between landmarks once thought unswimmable.
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