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Recent Examples of aboveground
In mid-March, five test containers, filled with nonradioactive materials, were sealed in a special aboveground facility before being transported underground and stored along a 70-meter-long subterranean tunnel, to provide an initial proof of concept for Onkalo’s storage process.
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Marta Abbà, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2025
Some are only designed for aboveground pools, while others can only be used in inground pools.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Another contract for aboveground construction associated with the extension between E. 96th and E. 116th Sts.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
As sirens warned of incoming rocket fire, the off-duty lookouts ran from their sleeping quarters to an aboveground shelter.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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Marta Abbà, Wired News, 23 Apr. 2025
Some are only designed for aboveground pools, while others can only be used in inground pools.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
Another contract for aboveground construction associated with the extension between E. 96th and E. 116th Sts.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2025
As sirens warned of incoming rocket fire, the off-duty lookouts ran from their sleeping quarters to an aboveground shelter.
—Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aboveground
surface
Adjective
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With modern farming, and its use of pesticides and herbicides, surface microbial communities often suffer.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 June 2025
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Storms are the most common cause of lightning, but lightning strikes have been observed in volcanic eruptions, surface nuclear detonations and during heavy snowstorms even.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
2 Aug. 2024
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“Aboveground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aboveground. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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