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In 2018, Microsoft deployed a submarine-like data center 117 feet below sea level to take advantage of the cooling benefits of seawater and tidal power to enable the project to be powered fully by renewable energy.—April Roach, CNBC, 29 Dec. 2025 Generating long-range electric fields in seawater is inherently difficult because seawater is highly conductive.—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2025 The rainwater is said to have mixed with mineral-rich sediment and seawater, creating a vivid, blood-red scene.—Emma Bussey, FOXNews.com, 18 Dec. 2025 Aida and his team aimed to design a plastic that responds naturally to seawater without complex processing.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seawater
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of seawater was
before the 12th century
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