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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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Yet the goals are simple: one, to locate the greatest mass of the barrel at a spot where the analytics suggest the most frequent contact is made by the hitter; and two, to support faster swings by moving weight distribution toward the bat knob.—
Michael Peregrine,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Breccia Capraia marble tops the lounge bar, fitted with a custom brass edge, a Perrin & Row faucet, and Foro by Waterworks knobs and pull.—
Andrew Sessa,
Architectural Digest,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Her comments were lightly edited: What is the goal of the summit?—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2025
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This week marks the first time the project has led this particular ranking, and it’s been a long journey to the summit.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
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 golf tournament also runs alongside the NCAA Tournament Final Four starting Saturday, April 5 in San Antonio where all four No. 1 seeds won Elite Eight games to advance to college basketball’s pinnacle at the Final Four.—
Jay Ginsbach,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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With big briny flavors, blue cheese, and crushed olives with lemon, this is truly the pinnacle of appetizers and belongs next to any charcuterie board.—
Erin Hooker,
Better Homes & Gardens,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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