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Recent Examples of seamount
Protecting underwater mountains, called seamounts, would contribute greatly to conservation efforts.
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Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
They are known to often form large aggregations, particularly around seamounts, oceanic islands, and along continental shelves.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Satellites Map Out Seafloor as Never Before Why These Deep-Sea Species Are Vulnerable
Along ridges where seamounts can be large but widely separated, the seamounts are typically entire worlds themselves.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
After drifting over a seamount, it got caught in a water vortex caused by ocean currents hitting the underwater mountain, which cause the iceberg to rotate about 15 degrees per day.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
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Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
They are known to often form large aggregations, particularly around seamounts, oceanic islands, and along continental shelves.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
Satellites Map Out Seafloor as Never Before Why These Deep-Sea Species Are Vulnerable
Along ridges where seamounts can be large but widely separated, the seamounts are typically entire worlds themselves.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
After drifting over a seamount, it got caught in a water vortex caused by ocean currents hitting the underwater mountain, which cause the iceberg to rotate about 15 degrees per day.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamount
Noun
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Sun, wind, and water sculpted the sandstone into a dramatic, desolate, unearthly landscape of gorges and valleys, inselbergs and stacks, towering tassili and natural arches.—
Aminatta Forna,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Aug. 2024
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Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.—
Paul Voosen,
Science | AAAS,
26 June 2019
Noun
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Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
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Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.—
Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
Noun
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Examples include moving the master bedroom to the first floor, replacing knobs with handles, and installing tall toilets.—
Steve Parrish,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Interior 1/6 The absence of anything remotely resembling a physical knob or dial inside either vehicle is a pretty good sign that automakers continue to ignore the pleas of customers to stop porting every last bit of functionality through its digital interfaces.—
Andrew J. Hawkins,
The Verge,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The summit will look at how fashion and textile firms can close the gap on social responsibility and safeguard the most vulnerable in their workforce.—
SJ STAFF,
Sourcing Journal,
24 Jan. 2025
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In May, during a summit in Atlanta organized by Mr. Thompson, executives were told that CNN’s reliance on its traditional TV business — which then encompassed roughly 72 percent of revenue — had only increased in recent years.—
Benjamin Mullin,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
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Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.—
Gregory Thomas,
SFChronicle.com,
17 Sep. 2020
Noun
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In some ways, saber teeth represent an evolutionary pinnacle, the optimal design for a canine tooth to puncture prey, says Rayfield.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2025
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For 2025, the VW Tiguan, which has been the company’s top selling model since it was redesigned in 2018 to align with the Atlas, serves as a pinnacle of all those ideas and then, takes them a step further with true luxury features and an even more elevated, refined style inside and out.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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