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: a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier
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: an emotionally cold person
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Examples of iceberg in a Sentence
a brilliant doctor, no doubt, but both patients and staff complain that he is an iceberg
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Educate Employees About Their Benefits Awareness is only the tip of the benefits literacy iceberg.
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Marcy Klipfel, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Bell had opened the pipe steam valve by hand, which kept the lights on two hours after Titanic hit the iceberg, saving hundreds of lives.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
But the ship struck the iceberg from the side, causing a series of punctures along the hull across 18 feet, affecting six of the compartments.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
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Marcy Klipfel, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
Bell had opened the pipe steam valve by hand, which kept the lights on two hours after Titanic hit the iceberg, saving hundreds of lives.
—Sean Kingsley, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
But the ship struck the iceberg from the side, causing a series of punctures along the hull across 18 feet, affecting six of the compartments.
—ArsTechnica, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Iceberg.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iceberg. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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iceberg
noun
ice·berg
ˈīs-ˌbərg 
: a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier
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