Docks and Waterfront

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Waterfront and docks are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Waterfront" with "Docks", this words are similar.

Waterfront noun - The area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water.

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Docks and waterfront are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Docks" instead a noun "Waterfront".

Terry Malloy, the bee working on the docks, is named after Marlon Brando's character in On the Waterfront.

Source: Video Game / Grim Fandango
What they seem not to realize is that, according to writer Bud Schulberg, about 80% of Barry's "unrealistic" "Sermon on the Docks" was taken from the speeches of the real-life waterfront priest Fr.

Source: Reality Is Unrealistic / Film
Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Terry Malloy's fight against corruption was in part modeled after whistle-blowing longshoreman Anthony De Vincenzo, who testified before a real-life Waterfront Commission about activities on the Hoboken Docks and suffered a degree of ostracism for his deed.

Source: Film / On the Waterfront

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