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Recent Examples of seamount
The data revealed that whale sharks tend to follow paths that connect key feeding grounds, with seamounts and industrial infrastructure acting as stepping stones along their journey.
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
In 2015, swelling around the seamount happened a few months after experts began monitoring the site.
—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
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Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
In 2015, swelling around the seamount happened a few months after experts began monitoring the site.
—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
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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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The knobs on the stove, the refrigerator handles, the drawer pulls, and the kitchen light switches all need a good scrub and disinfecting.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
13 Apr. 2025
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Knobs, cup pulls, bar pulls, drop handles, backplate knobs, latch hardware—there's no shortage of ways to dress your cabinet doors, especially this year.—
Shivani Vyas,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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After largely withdrawing from the public square since Trump was sworn into his second term, the former vice president appeared at a summit for Black women leaders in Dana Point, Calif., last week.—
David Catanese,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Min Aung Hlaing reportedly said at last Friday’s summit that the election would proceed despite the disaster.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 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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The cut is also inching closer to the pinnacle of both the Hot Latin Songs and Latin Streaming Songs charts.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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This version of Florida does have some conspicuous differences from the one Billy Donovan first led to the pinnacle in 2006, nine years after arriving from Marshall.—
Brian Hamilton,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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