as in oceanic
of, relating to, or occurring in the open sea chartered a boat to do some deep-sea fishing

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Recent Examples of deep-sea Like the Eclipse ships, Scenic Ikon will have two helicopters and one submersible for both high-flying and deep-sea adventures. Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 21 Oct. 2025 Among the first items on the trip’s itinerary list: a deep-sea fishing expedition. Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025 The implosion of the Titan killed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and led to lawsuits and calls for tighter regulation of private deep-sea expeditions. Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025 Fifteen of these were deep-sea vessels. Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 15 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deep-sea
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  • For Mateus, as for filmmakers in her personal pantheon, conflicts at hand stem inextricably from local and national history and also from oceanic depths of experience, too easily dismissed as folklore, from which individual identity and group identification emerge.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, little was known about the sneaker, including its oceanic inspiration.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Deep-sea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep-sea. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.

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