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Recent Examples of seamount
The researchers also revealed that certain deep-sea topographical features, like canyons and ridges, have attracted much more scientific attention than abyssal plains and seamounts.
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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 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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Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 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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Try removing the knob and spray some electrical contact cleaner down the shaft of the knob.—
John Paul Senior Manager Public Affairs And Traffic Safety Aaa Northeast,
Hartford Courant,
10 Aug. 2025
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Tactile switches, knobs, and handles also help connect Scout drivers with their vehicle.—
Dennis Lewon,
Outside Online,
25 July 2025
Noun
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The eight pages carried U.S. State Department insignia and contained information on the summit meetings, locations, and phone numbers for three U.S. government staffers.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Aug. 2025
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Friday's summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska -- to which Ukrainian representatives were not invited -- ended with Russia demanding that Ukraine cede the entirety of its contested and fortified eastern Donetsk region in exchange for an end to the fighting, two sources told ABC News.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
17 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
Noun
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After two years of coming close, St. Joseph Academy reached the pinnacle last season.—
Rick Hoff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Aug. 2025
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The pinnacle of these new features are two new drive modes: RAD Tuner and Kick Turn.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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