the seabed

noun

: the ground that is at the bottom of the sea

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An unmanned service vessel would be able to use ultrasonic waves to generate a rough map of the seabed, with a dedicated search robot then tasked with more detailed scans of the depths. New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2025 This changed when the Northern Endurance Partnership, a project exploring carbon storage beneath the North Sea, gathered new high-resolution seismic images of the seabed in 2022. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025 The researchers believe that after sustaining their injuries, the pterosaurs fell into the lagoon and drowned in the waves, falling to the seabed where mud stirred up by the storm rapidly buried them. Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025 With around a quarter of the world's population lacking access to safe drinking water, the discovery of the hidden aquifer, one of many deposits known to exist across the globe, has highlighted the existence of potentially drinkable water sitting below the seabed. Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the seabed

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“The seabed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20seabed. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.

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