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Recent Examples of seamount
Scientists are eager to conduct further research to understand how the ban may be benefitting Chilean seamounts.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
Chadwick and his team also often travel to the seamount on expeditions to gather more data.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Previous ocean-observing satellites have detected massive versions of these bottom features, such as seamounts over roughly 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) tall.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
The ecosystem is home to seamounts, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea trenches and species found only in its freezing water.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
Chadwick and his team also often travel to the seamount on expeditions to gather more data.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Previous ocean-observing satellites have detected massive versions of these bottom features, such as seamounts over roughly 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) tall.
—David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
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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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While the Heston 120’s design pleasingly includes a classic set of analogue Marshall control knobs, it can also be fully controlled using a new Marshall app that includes an option to run a room calibration system to adapt the soundbar’s sound to your particular room layout.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Check the base of the beater shaft, rims around the motor housing, ventilation openings, and control knobs and switches.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 May 2025
Noun
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Wilson has scored a pair, and McEntire — despite her lengthy career — has only reached the summit once.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2025
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The meeting set the stage for a G7 summit will be held in the Canadian Rocky Mountain town of Kananaskis on June 15.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
23 May 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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Leitch was engaged by Rangers on two separate occasions but the red-brick facade on the Main Stand was the pinnacle.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Major League Baseball is the pinnacle of the sport.—
Maury Brown,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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