variants
or less commonly sea bed
plural seabeds also sea beds
: the floor of a sea or ocean : seafloor
This atoll is the summit of an undersea volcano that rises from the seabed 10,000 feet below the surface.—
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When China restricted exports of rare-earth minerals to Japan over a territorial dispute in 2010, Japan diversified its sources of critical minerals and invested more in domestic seabed exploration.
—Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2022
Exploring the world’s seabeds is a complicated, expensive and long process.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
Concerns as varied as congressional anxiety over international treaties and commercial interests in deep seabed mining have made presidents despair of ever ratifying it, even though the Pentagon and the State Department have advocated doing so.
—Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
The government said the effort has the potential to deliver up to 20 to 30 gigawatts of extra offshore wind seabed leases to the market by 2030.
—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2022
Exploring the world’s seabeds is a complicated, expensive and long process.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
Concerns as varied as congressional anxiety over international treaties and commercial interests in deep seabed mining have made presidents despair of ever ratifying it, even though the Pentagon and the State Department have advocated doing so.
—Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022
The government said the effort has the potential to deliver up to 20 to 30 gigawatts of extra offshore wind seabed leases to the market by 2030.
—Karla Adam, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
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“Seabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seabed. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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seabed
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sea·bed
ˈsē-ˌbed 
: the floor of a sea or ocean
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