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Examples of ice age in a Sentence
changes that occurred during the last ice age
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The brazen destruction of Juukan Gorge, where Aboriginal people made use of caves as far back as the last ice age, was perfectly legal, yet the action shocked and upset investors, consumers, and the community.
—The Sorenson Impact Institute, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Climate change gets its revenge in this thriller, where Jake Gyllenhaal co-stars as a climatologist alongside a nasty hailstorm that pelts Tokyo, tornadoes that hit LA and a flood that makes New York City a swimming pool, all leading to a sudden new ice age.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
Analysis of the core showed, in extraordinary detail, how temperatures in central Greenland had varied during the last ice age, which in the U.S. is called the Wisconsin.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
These finds challenge the accepted notion of when our ancestors first crossed into America via the Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska during the last ice age.
—Martin Broen, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice age
noun1
: a time of widespread glaciation
2
capitalized I&A
: the most recent such period in the earth's past
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