: a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
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Many skiers, including Team USA members Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin, expressed concern during the Games about climate change accelerating melt of the world’s glaciers.
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Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around 13,000 years ago.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
The species diverged from its closest relative approximately 780,000 years ago, possibly after a population became isolated under glaciers in deep ocean trenches.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
Testing revealed that the species diverged as a separate species approximately 780,000 years ago, a time when most of the Southern Ocean was covered in glaciers.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
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Jennifer McDermott, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around 13,000 years ago.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
The species diverged from its closest relative approximately 780,000 years ago, possibly after a population became isolated under glaciers in deep ocean trenches.
—Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 19 Feb. 2026
Testing revealed that the species diverged as a separate species approximately 780,000 years ago, a time when most of the Southern Ocean was covered in glaciers.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
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“Glacier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glacier. Accessed 27 Feb. 2026.
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glacier
noun
gla·cier
ˈglā-shər 
: a large body of ice moving slowly down a slope or valley or spreading outward on a land surface
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