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 But for all creatures, from deep-sea microbes and slime molds to trees and humans, water is nonnegotiable. Dan Samorodnitsky, Quanta Magazine, 11 Aug. 2025 Research on deep-sea ecosystems is only a few decades old, and the technology for new discoveries is improving. Marlowe Starling, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2025 But there’s also the Audubon Bird Sanctuary and Alabama Aquarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Dauphin Island village at the island’s east end offers restaurants and deep-sea fishing charters as well as rental speedboats, pontoon boats and jet skis. Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025 Argentinians have a surprising new fixation — a livestream of deep-sea creatures spotted during an international expedition to map one of the country’s largest deep-sea canyons. Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deep-sea
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oceanic
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  • Landa describes how the wine’s sea-breeze freshness and herbal lift really echo the oyster’s oceanic origin.
    Jillian Dara, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • But from 2020 to 2024, the average skyrocketed to 8.2 per year in Missouri, according to data from the National Centers for Environmental Information, a government agency that monitors U.S. and global climates and archives atmospheric, coastal, geophysical and oceanic data.
    Zuri Primos July 18, Kansas City Star, 18 July 2025

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“Deep-sea.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deep-sea. Accessed 27 Aug. 2025.

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