Davy Jones's locker

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Noun
  • Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.
    Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The basin is a long-standing industrial hub that grew around the 1951 discovery of a large, high-pressure sour natural gas field in southwestern France.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 13 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • There’s still ice the coyotes use, especially if there’s heavy snow cover inland, but what looks like seemingly endless ice cover one day will turn into an expanse of blue water once the wind changes.
    David Zeug, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The hotel sits on a point and is almost entirely surround by calm, gin-bottle blue water.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around 13,000 years ago.
    Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Scientists have eyes on these depths for only a small fraction of the year.
    Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 19 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Lunch is à la carte, and dinner is a tasting menu that varies every night, depending on what the countryside, the sea, and the orchard offer that day.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2026
  • If you're all set on aquamarine, explore a full rainbow of sea foam green, olive, and chartreuse.
    Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 19 Feb. 2026
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“Davy Jones's locker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Davy%20Jones%27s%20locker. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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