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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
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
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The handle has a gentle curve and an extra knob towards the brush head to give you better leverage when cleaning.—
Bon Appétit,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 July 2025
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Most have knobs for the height and one or more angles.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
17 July 2025
Noun
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If finding indoor shelter is not an option: Stay away from open fields, hill summits, or ridge tops.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
24 July 2025
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The penultimate stage is the queen stage—the most difficult in the race—and features a summit finish on the Col de la Madeleine.—
Sophie Kaufman,
Forbes.com,
24 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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However, instead of reaching their professional pinnacle of success, many of them have accrued 47% of the nation’s outstanding student loan debt.—
Colleen Batchelder,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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The experience gets even better with a group of friends, and reaches its pinnacle in the Florida Keys, where personal watercraft, thanks to their swiftness, agility, and minimal draft, are ideal vessels to explore the pristine, and often shallow waters.—
Jeremy Korzeniewski,
Robb Report,
12 July 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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