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Recent Examples of seamount
Hydrothermal vents and seamounts are likely to be more tricky to mine.
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
The ocean currents surrounding undersea pinnacles and seamounts enhance the availability of food sources such as plankton.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Zoom in: Given its proximity to the coast and level of activity, the seamount was picked to be the first underwater volcano observatory in the world.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Scientists are eager to conduct further research to understand how the ban may be benefitting Chilean seamounts.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025
The ocean currents surrounding undersea pinnacles and seamounts enhance the availability of food sources such as plankton.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Zoom in: Given its proximity to the coast and level of activity, the seamount was picked to be the first underwater volcano observatory in the world.
—Kale Williams, Axios, 14 Jan. 2025
Scientists are eager to conduct further research to understand how the ban may be benefitting Chilean seamounts.
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamount
Noun
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Sun, wind, and water sculpted the sandstone into a dramatic, desolate, unearthly landscape of gorges and valleys, inselbergs and stacks, towering tassili and natural arches.—
Aminatta Forna,
Condé Nast Traveler,
13 Aug. 2024
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Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.—
Paul Voosen,
Science | AAAS,
26 June 2019
Noun
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Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
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Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.—
Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
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To study them, astronomers use complex models that have many knobs and switches.—
Andrej Prša,
The Conversation,
23 July 2025
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But its core design—gray screen, red frame, white knobs—largely remained the same.—
Aurora Martínez,
Smithsonian Magazine,
11 July 2025
Noun
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At Mount Battie, the park’s second-highest peak, visitors can hike to the summit or drive the seasonal auto road, on clear days, even spotting Cadillac Mountain in Acadia.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Aug. 2025
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Since then, reports Boat International, more people have stood on the summit of Everest than have traversed the Northwest Passage by sea.—
Cassidy Randall,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
14 Nov. 2022
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Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.—
Gregory Thomas,
SFChronicle.com,
17 Sep. 2020
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If the war in Vietnam marked the pinnacle of war journalism, and AP had a legendary perch in that war, much of it was due to Faas.—
Gary Knight,
Rolling Stone,
1 Aug. 2025
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The world tells of success as such a wonderful story, the pinnacle of happiness.—
Sarah Shephard,
New York Times,
30 July 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 9 Aug. 2025.
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