seamount

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Recent Examples of seamount The seamount is 250 miles north of Palau — an island country east of the Philippines — and multibeam sonar revealed its peak is hidden about 800 feet below the surface. Mark Price, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Or book a berth aboard the eight-passenger Water and Wind catamaran to sites that include Princess Alice Bank, where huge schools of jack, tuna, and barracuda cloud the seamount. Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025 The second looks to obtain cobalt-rich crusts that have accumulated over millions of years on the tops of seamounts between depths of approximately 3,000 and 8,000 feet, by peeling these crusts off from the bedrock. Amber X. Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 July 2025 Deep sea minerals are found across the globe There are three main critical mineral deposits in the oceans: crusts on seamounts, potato-sized nodules and hydrothermal vents. Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 8 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for seamount
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Model weights are sets of parameters, like knobs and dials in a machine, telling the models how to process information.
    Huo Jingnan, NPR, 31 May 2026
  • Wring the cloth and wipe cabinet fronts, paying special attention to areas around the knobs.
    Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2026
Noun
  • Japan’s prime minister courted Pacific island nations at a summit in Tokyo aimed at keeping them out of Beijing’s orbit, underscoring an intensifying rivalry between the Asian powers.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 3 June 2026
  • The Tivat summit will focus on the prospects for membership of the six Western Balkan candidate countries — Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Montenegro.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Earlier this month, a snowmobiler was killed in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range after an avalanche buried him in snow.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Away Lutsen Mountains is one of only a few ski resorts in the Midwest on an actual mountain range.
    Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Mallorca’s very own mountain range is perfect walking territory, boasting the famous Ruta de Pedra en Sec (Dry Stone Route), a 93-mile trail that runs the length of the sierra from Andratx to Pollença.
    Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
Noun
  • This spring, Munetaka Murakami, Tatsuya Imai, and Kazuma Okamoto all left the island nation and headed for the pinnacle of baseball competition.
    Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • The second time, the Devil takes him to the top of the pinnacle of the Temple in Jerusalem and invites him to throw himself off of it, since God will surely send angels to catch him.
    Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026

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“Seamount.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamount. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.

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