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Recent Examples of aboveground
Remember that the bulbs will be exposed to aboveground, freezing temperatures.
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Extending blast simulation to underground effects The team is extending VC BlastProtect, a 3D city-model simulation first developed under the SIRIUS project, which has modelled aboveground blast waves and the flight of bomb fragments while accounting for surrounding infrastructure.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
As the subterranean situation deteriorates, the deceptions Max’s and Ane’s parents have been weaving since their own teen years to protect their egos and easy lives unravel along with their lavish aboveground lifestyles.
—Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
But in 2007, Israeli intelligence serendipitously stumbled on evidence of a Syrian nuclear reactor—a miniature replica of North Korea’s Yongbyon facility—that was housed in a nondescript, aboveground complex in the hinterland near the Euphrates River.
—Vipin Narang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
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Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Extending blast simulation to underground effects The team is extending VC BlastProtect, a 3D city-model simulation first developed under the SIRIUS project, which has modelled aboveground blast waves and the flight of bomb fragments while accounting for surrounding infrastructure.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
As the subterranean situation deteriorates, the deceptions Max’s and Ane’s parents have been weaving since their own teen years to protect their egos and easy lives unravel along with their lavish aboveground lifestyles.
—Judy Berman, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
But in 2007, Israeli intelligence serendipitously stumbled on evidence of a Syrian nuclear reactor—a miniature replica of North Korea’s Yongbyon facility—that was housed in a nondescript, aboveground complex in the hinterland near the Euphrates River.
—Vipin Narang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aboveground
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The company’s focus on efficient and autonomous ship manufacturing and mature supply chain enables high volume, low cost delivery of commercial and defense maritime vehicles, in surface and sub-surface environments (currently 95% of commercial ship-building occurs in Asia).—
Sabbir Rangwala,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Mura’s research team suggests that the sub-surface and mantle of Io may be like a sponge, in the sense that it is filled with pores filled with magma.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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