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Recent Examples of tarn
The two main tarns on this trail are flanked by subalpine meadows with a variety of shrubs and wildflowers that change colors in the fall.
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Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
One fuselage is deposited in an enormous hangar, used as a backlot on the slopes of the Sierra: the second one is nearly buried in artificial snow, and surrounded by olive trees; the third is found above the Sierra Nevada’s high mountain tarn La Laguna de las Yeguas, at around 10,000 feet.
—Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
In the morning, kick off the day’s driving with a 30-minute excursion to visit the enormous sapphire tarn of Mono Lake, an alkaline expanse freckled with tufa spires, pinnacles formed by calcium carbonate interacting with freshwater springs in the lakebed.
—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022
Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms.
—Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake.
—Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular.
—Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 7 May 2024
One fuselage is deposited in an enormous hangar, used as a backlot on the slopes of the Sierra: the second one is nearly buried in artificial snow, and surrounded by olive trees; the third is found above the Sierra Nevada’s high mountain tarn La Laguna de las Yeguas, at around 10,000 feet.
—Emilio Mayorga, Variety, 29 Apr. 2022
In the morning, kick off the day’s driving with a 30-minute excursion to visit the enormous sapphire tarn of Mono Lake, an alkaline expanse freckled with tufa spires, pinnacles formed by calcium carbonate interacting with freshwater springs in the lakebed.
—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022
Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush.
—Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms.
—Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake.
—Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular.
—Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tarn
Noun
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With spring here, many adventurists are hitting up their local lakes and rivers for water activities.—
Mike Stunson,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2025
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His body was recovered from the lake around 10:40 p.m. local time, per the outlet.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
People.com,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Nix’s 16-month-old grandson, the sibling of the girl who died, wandered out of her home and drowned in a pond when Nix fell asleep while watching him in December 2021, according to attorneys.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2025
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Nearly a month later, on Feb. 25, the sheriff’s office received a call regarding human remains discovered in a pond roughly 3 miles from the home.—
David Matthews,
New York Daily News,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In recent years, persistent drought in the West has reduced water levels in the Colorado River, Lake Mead and Lake Powell -- the two largest reservoirs in the country -- to record-low levels.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2025
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But decades of overuse, drought and climate change have drained its flow to critical levels, threatening the stability of reservoirs such as Lake Mead.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The tracks were found in the sedimentary rippled sand remnants of an ancient subtropical lagoon.—
Stephanie Edwards,
Discover Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Closer to the hub of the property, 14 family-friendly beach bungalows overlook a private lagoon.—
Jess Feldman,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Adrian Shine, who has been researching the loch in Scotland since the 1970s, helped identify the camera as one of six lowered nearly 600 feet below the loch's surface by Roy Mackal, of the Loch Ness Investigation Bureau and the University of Chicago.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
31 Mar. 2025
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The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Tarn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tarn. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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