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Recent Examples of seamount
Underwater volcano lurks off the Oregon coast The massive undersea Axial seamount volcano reaches more than 3,600 feet above the seabed about 300 miles off Oregon.
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Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Hydrothermal vents and seamounts are likely to be more tricky to mine.
—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
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Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 29 May 2025
Hydrothermal vents and seamounts are likely to be more tricky to mine.
—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
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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
Noun
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By turning this knob, the business can strike a balance in the tradeoff between a model’s primary bottom-line/monetary value and the number of false positives and false negatives, as well as other KPIs.—
Eric Siegel,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The cocotte has two handles and a lid fitted with a pumpkin stem knob.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, as the summit was taking place, Pope Leo received the diplomatic credentials of the new US Ambassador to the Holy See, Brian Burch.—
Antonia Mortensen,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Twang, Troubadour, Somewhere Down in Texas, and Carrying Your Love With Me all managed one stay at the summit.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And they can be visited at Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, roughly five hours north of Southern California in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.—
Paul Bersebach,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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With an apex at 12,095 feet above sea level – higher than timberline – the windy road over the pass is only open from June through October each year due to the snow that piles up in the Sawatch mountain range.—
Jonathan Shikes,
Denver Post,
8 Sep. 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
Noun
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But the template had been set, Paris was marked as a shorthand for the pinnacle of female achievement—only the most stylish, successful, and generally it would be summoned there—and established as the option only a truly singular love could outshine.—
Megan Angelo,
Glamour,
11 Sep. 2025
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Also in the Tuamotus, on the atoll of Tikehau, divers head out to Tuheiava Pass with Tikehau Diving for regular sightings of mantas at a cleaning station (pinnacles that draw large fish to have their gills, teeth, and carapaces cleaned by smaller ones).—
Terry Ward,
AFAR Media,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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