the seabed

noun

: the ground that is at the bottom of the sea

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Deep-seabed mining would also advance another Chinese security imperative by facilitating the mapping of the seabed and the laying of undersea cables that can be used in support of naval and submarine warfare. Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, 9 Dec. 2025 Over five years, researchers catalogued marine life on the seabed and evaluated the effects of a mining trial in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast region stretching between Mexico and Hawaii. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Malaysia's government said Wednesday that American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity would soon resume the seabed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, more than a decade after the plane vanished over the Indian Ocean. CBS News, 3 Dec. 2025 Malaysia will pay the firm $70 million if substantive wreckage is found during the search on the seabed of an area in the southern Indian Ocean covering 5,790 square miles. Reuters, NBC news, 3 Dec. 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 16 Dec. 2025.

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