: a usually large flat free mass of floating sea ice
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The exhibition features his maps and sullied backpack, toothbrush, bar of soap, and survival goods, along with photos of him sleeping on park benches, crouching on the banks of the Hudson in front of ice floes, and haunting the city.—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025 So at three in the morning, Nweeia saw a polar bear crawl its way onto the ice floe.—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025 The ship was built to withstand collisions with ice floes at the ice's edge, where polar bears could be found hunting.—Joe Hernandez, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025 Occasionally a curious polar bear meandered near camp, which was always changing as the ice floe buckled and drifted across the Arctic Ocean.—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ice floe
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