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Recent Examples of seamount
Zoom in: Given its proximity to the coast and level of activity, the seamount was picked to be the first underwater volcano observatory in the world.
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Kale Williams, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Scientists are eager to conduct further research to understand how the ban may be benefitting Chilean seamounts.
—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
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Kale Williams, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Scientists are eager to conduct further research to understand how the ban may be benefitting Chilean seamounts.
—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
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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
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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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Start by just changing the knobs on a dresser, MacDermaid said.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
3 July 2025
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Users can easily adjust the temperature settings and two fan speeds using the knobs on the bottom left of the unit.—
Izzy Baskette,
People.com,
18 June 2025
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The track first reached the summit on the chart dated May 10 and has not disappeared from that spot since.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
12 July 2025
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The state should support safety-net hospitals to become diabetes centers of excellence — as the summit host, BronxCare, has managed to do.—
Vanessa Gibson,
New York Daily News,
11 July 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
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Young reached the pinnacle of success in high school at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, Calif.—he was named the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year in 2020—and in college at Alabama.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
7 July 2025
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That said, James Cameron's epic reaches the pinnacle of disaster-movie impudence with the distasteful suggestion that the most celebrated tragedy of the 20th century occurred because a few lookouts were distracted by Kate and Leo sucking face.—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
3 July 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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