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 The vessel imploded while on its 88th dive, killing five people on a deep-sea voyage to the Titanic wreckage on June 18, 2023. Ayesha Ali, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025 In a statement on Friday, the Chinese Embassy in Chile said that China strengthens supervision of the country's deep-sea fishing by conducting 24-hour monitoring of its vessels and requiring them to report their positions hourly, far exceeding international standards. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025 As a science journalist and ocean explorer, she's investigated misinformation campaigns on social media, embedded in Alaskan archaeological digs, and contributed to the discovery of deep-sea organisms in the Central Pacific. Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 9 Oct. 2025 Even if your beat wasn’t geopolitics or the economic structure behind deep-sea tourism, you were supposed to drop everything and help perpetuate the flood, or find a way to work it into your coverage, however contrived. Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deep-sea
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oceanic
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  • The Ring of Fire surrounds much of the Pacific Ocean and is home to numerous oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and fault systems.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The peculiar thing is that many of the genes identified in these oceanic creatures are also found in the unicellular species that preceded them.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Deep-sea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep-sea. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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