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Already receding in the distance like our wayward penguin, or one of those sad-eyed polar bears drifting away on an ice floe, the model is doomed to a slow and lonely demise.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 26 July 2024
Sworn to the one-nation-two-state formula that later won their leader, Willy Brandt, a Nobel Peace prize, West Germany’s Social Democrats clung to the status quo like polar bears to a disappearing ice floe.
—David Schoenbaum, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2014
The men floated on an ice floe and used lifeboats to reach the uninhabited Elephant Island.
Shackleton and a few crew members then embarked on a risky trek across hundreds of miles of violent seas to South Georgia island to search for rescuers.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 June 2024
The ice floes parted just long enough for Endurance to finally sink into the ocean, before closing again to erase any trace of the wreckage.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 13 June 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above
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“Ice floe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20floe. Accessed 28 Sep. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice floe
noun
: a flat free mass of floating sea ice
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