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Recent Examples of seamount
In 2015, swelling around the seamount happened a few months after experts began monitoring the site.
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Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Now, with the seamount's surface rising to 95 percent of its pre-2015 eruption level, researchers anticipate a new eruption within the next two years.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Under chemical analysis, scientists were able to reconstruct past environmental changes like ocean temperature shifts and the eruptions of underwater seamounts, which left their marks on the ancient sponge.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
Protecting underwater mountains, called seamounts, would contribute greatly to conservation efforts.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
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Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Now, with the seamount's surface rising to 95 percent of its pre-2015 eruption level, researchers anticipate a new eruption within the next two years.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Under chemical analysis, scientists were able to reconstruct past environmental changes like ocean temperature shifts and the eruptions of underwater seamounts, which left their marks on the ancient sponge.
—Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
Protecting underwater mountains, called seamounts, would contribute greatly to conservation efforts.
—Ashley Balzer Vigil, Discover Magazine, 10 Sep. 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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Fertility all of a sudden seemed like a knob that governments could turn at will.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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What to look for in a quality shower faucet Components Look for a shower faucet that comes with a diverter, which enables you to redirect the water flow from the spout to the showerhead with a switch or knob.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Putin, who meets frequently, albeit separately, with Xi and Kim, would like to have a trilateral summit to forge closer relations among all three countries.—
Sergey Radchenko,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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Such a summit has been the mainstay of Trump’s policy for peace in Ukraine.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN,
18 Feb. 2025
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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
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For many people, going to Harvard University is the pinnacle of education, but in reality, less than four percent of applicants get accepted into the prestigious Ivy League school.—
Alyce Collins,
Newsweek,
22 Feb. 2025
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An elite teenage athlete like Malinin ends up making trade offs in order to reach the pinnacle of his sport.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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