climes

noun

plural of clime
as in environments
the circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded a nonconformist who left his jerkwater hometown for the more welcoming clime of the big city

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Recent Examples of climes Though like The-Witch-the-movie, this strange, jarring delight is concerned with the fate of older women in un-hospitable climes. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 2 July 2026 Like many arrivals from colder, cloudier climes, Hockney went all in on LA, buying a Ford Falcon and devouring John Rechy’s City of Night. — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026 Just under 300,000 years from the moment Homo sapiens appeared in Africa, the species had encircled Earth, mastering desolate deserts and frozen wastelands and all the temperate climes in between. — Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 4 June 2026 Other Floridians skip the season altogether and flee to cooler climes, choosing to drive north into the mountains for a cool-cation. — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 June 2026 The excellent D’Amico Kitchen restaurant and the blue-flamed fire in the lobby delivers warmth and sustenance in the coolest venue of one of the country’s coldest climes. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026 As temperatures drop and autumn gives way to the seemingly ceaseless snows of winter, some animals in northerly climes exchange their pelage or plumage of summer drab for the purest white. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 Known for its cinematic landscapes, Scotland is another top draw for cooler summer climes. — Ramona Saviss, HollywoodReporter, 24 Mar. 2026 Most visitors time their trips to escape colder climes back home, driving up high-season prices, though even the busiest areas of the Exumas feel like a peaceful escape from busier Nassau. — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2026
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  1. environments
  2. climates
  3. atmospheres
  4. surrounds
Noun
  • The goal is to provide a more accurate, stable, and practical data foundation for training embodied AI systems in real-world environments.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 July 2026
  • Sitting above data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI services, Dataiku connects the full enterprise AI stack — empowering organizations to run AI across multi-vendor environments with centralized governance.
    — Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of environments
Noun
  • The ticks are moving not just into previously colder climates, which are now becoming friendlier to them, but south into warmer ones.
    — Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • Indigenous tree species are generally better adapted to local climates, support far more wildlife, and create healthier, more resilient ecosystems than large monoculture plantations.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Definition of climates
Noun
  • And the question is whether the planets even have atmospheres, because M dwarfs are quite active.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2026
  • The series already featured arguably the best atmospheric immersion in sports video games and the team has gone to great lengths to further sell us on college football atmospheres.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of atmospheres
Noun
  • The debut Elora neatly brings together a white RV box and a white chassis, offsetting all that brightness with numerous windows enclosed by black surrounds matching the Promaster front bumper.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 July 2026
  • Quince, San Francisco Chef Michael Tusk has combined his love of Northern Italian cuisine with his surrounds in Northern California to evolve classics like tortellini into modern American fare.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 26 June 2026
Definition of surrounds

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