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: a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier
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: an emotionally cold person
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Examples of iceberg in a Sentence
a brilliant doctor, no doubt, but both patients and staff complain that he is an iceberg
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This type of ice has formed under immense pressure over the years, contributing to the iceberg's striking appearance.
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Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Get The Recipe Honestly, that's just the tip of my holiday cooking iceberg.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2024
Rostron, who helmed the passenger ship RMS Carpathia, saved 700 passengers who were stranded at sea after the Titanic struck an iceberg in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024
That also suggests that this was the tip of an iceberg of bruised feelings between the two of you.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Get The Recipe Honestly, that's just the tip of my holiday cooking iceberg.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2024
Rostron, who helmed the passenger ship RMS Carpathia, saved 700 passengers who were stranded at sea after the Titanic struck an iceberg in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024
That also suggests that this was the tip of an iceberg of bruised feelings between the two of you.
—R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 4 Nov. 2024
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“Iceberg.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iceberg. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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iceberg
noun
ice·berg
ˈīs-ˌbərg 
: a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier
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