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This intimate 58-key hotel marries Bequia's laid-back bliss with luxe amenities like a seawater infinity pool, a spa, and a range of available activities.—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025 He is fascinated by the potentially vast amount of undiscovered biodiversity these relationships might contain, and his lab looks for such relationships in seawater.—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2025 The cycle swings between warmer and cooler seawater in a region along the equator in the tropical Pacific Ocean.—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025 Inorganic carbon refers to carbon bound in atmospheric gases, dissolved in seawater or locked in minerals, rather than biological material.—Morgan Underwood, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 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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