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Recent Examples of aboveground
As sirens warned of incoming rocket fire, the off-duty lookouts ran from their sleeping quarters to an aboveground shelter.
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Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
In some cases, the dark oxygen had been isolated from the atmosphere aboveground for more than 40,000 years.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
The only view of the outside comes from an aboveground camera, which shows a desolate hillside, some leafless trees, and the dead bodies of people who have left the Silo.
—Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Government investigators found that three smaller airports in South Korea — which serve the cities of Gwangju, Yeosu, Pohang and Gyeongju — had similar aboveground concrete structures.
—River Akira Davis, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2025
In some cases, the dark oxygen had been isolated from the atmosphere aboveground for more than 40,000 years.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
The only view of the outside comes from an aboveground camera, which shows a desolate hillside, some leafless trees, and the dead bodies of people who have left the Silo.
—Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
Government investigators found that three smaller airports in South Korea — which serve the cities of Gwangju, Yeosu, Pohang and Gyeongju — had similar aboveground concrete structures.
—River Akira Davis, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aboveground
surface
Adjective
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With modern farming, and its use of pesticides and herbicides, surface microbial communities often suffer.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
21 June 2025
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Storms are the most common cause of lightning, but lightning strikes have been observed in volcanic eruptions, surface nuclear detonations and during heavy snowstorms even.—
Joyce Orlando,
The Tennessean,
2 Aug. 2024
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“Aboveground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aboveground. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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