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Its all semantics of course but what the article doesnt mention is flow. I cant think of another sea that drains into a river.

Edit: in fact the word 'lake' is derived from meaning to drain ('leak' is similar)

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The Bosphorus and Dardanelles, between the Black Sea and the Aegean/Mediterranean, are quite a lot like a river. There are both shorter and wider bodies of water that are considered rivers.

They don't have a one way flow though

Many rivers have tidal flows in their lower reaches. Maybe the Turkish Straits are just an extreme example of that?

Neither do the Straits of Mackinac

A lot of people argue that the Straits of Mackinac is just a very narrow section of a single large lake - in other words that Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are a single lake, not two lakes.

Yes, there is just a single lake comprising Michigan and Huron.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_of_Mackinac

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