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Previous ocean-observing satellites have detected massive versions of these bottom features, such as seamounts over roughly 3,300 feet (1 kilometer) tall.
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David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The currents create a cylindrical motion of the water above the seamount, where the iceberg now floats, rotating about 15 degrees a day, according to the British Antarctic Survey.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
Because of its frequent activity, the seamount is home to the world’s first underwater observatory, called the New Millennium Observatory, or NeMO, per Oregon State University.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
The seamount is beginning to reach the inflation stages that preceded the last eruption in 2015, Chadwick said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2025
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David Bressan, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
The currents create a cylindrical motion of the water above the seamount, where the iceberg now floats, rotating about 15 degrees a day, according to the British Antarctic Survey.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
Because of its frequent activity, the seamount is home to the world’s first underwater observatory, called the New Millennium Observatory, or NeMO, per Oregon State University.
—Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
The seamount is beginning to reach the inflation stages that preceded the last eruption in 2015, Chadwick said.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamount
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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
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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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While the Heston 120’s design pleasingly includes a classic set of analogue Marshall control knobs, it can also be fully controlled using a new Marshall app that includes an option to run a room calibration system to adapt the soundbar’s sound to your particular room layout.—
John Archer,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2025
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Check the base of the beater shaft, rims around the motor housing, ventilation openings, and control knobs and switches.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
19 May 2025
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The image was captured from video footage aired on North Korean television on June 13, 2018, when Trump, as president, attended a summit meeting in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and seen in a clip tweeted by BBC Monitoring.—
Brendan Cole
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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The upcoming second annual WIE Canada summit will again bring together the Canadian industry across TV, film and music to celebrate and recognize the achievements of women leading the industry forward.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
13 May 2025
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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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Leitch was engaged by Rangers on two separate occasions but the red-brick facade on the Main Stand was the pinnacle.—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Major League Baseball is the pinnacle of the sport.—
Maury Brown,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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