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Recent Examples of tarn
The two main tarns on this trail are flanked by subalpine meadows with a variety of shrubs and wildflowers that change colors in the fall.
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Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
16 Sep. 2024
What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.
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Carly Tagen-Dye,
Peoplemag,
7 May 2024
Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush.
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Krista Simmons,
Sunset Magazine,
22 Sep. 2022
One fuselage is deposited in an enormous hangar, used as a backlot on the slopes of the Sierra: the second one is nearly buried in artificial snow, and surrounded by olive trees; the third is found above the Sierra Nevada’s high mountain tarn La Laguna de las Yeguas, at around 10,000 feet.
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Emilio Mayorga,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2022
In the morning, kick off the day’s driving with a 30-minute excursion to visit the enormous sapphire tarn of Mono Lake, an alkaline expanse freckled with tufa spires, pinnacles formed by calcium carbonate interacting with freshwater springs in the lakebed.
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Emily Pennington,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Feb. 2022
The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms.
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Douglas Preston,
The New Yorker,
7 Dec. 2020
Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake.
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Tegan Hanlon,
Anchorage Daily News,
15 June 2018
In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular.
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Kieran Dodds,
Smithsonian,
20 Apr. 2018
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
16 Sep. 2024
What didn’t end up in a New Orleanian’s blood ended up filling every pothole in the Quarter—a bubbly black tarn of viscid vice.
—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
Peoplemag,
7 May 2024
Pass Grant Lake, a deep blue tarn nestled in the sagebrush.
—
Krista Simmons,
Sunset Magazine,
22 Sep. 2022
One fuselage is deposited in an enormous hangar, used as a backlot on the slopes of the Sierra: the second one is nearly buried in artificial snow, and surrounded by olive trees; the third is found above the Sierra Nevada’s high mountain tarn La Laguna de las Yeguas, at around 10,000 feet.
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Emilio Mayorga,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2022
In the morning, kick off the day’s driving with a 30-minute excursion to visit the enormous sapphire tarn of Mono Lake, an alkaline expanse freckled with tufa spires, pinnacles formed by calcium carbonate interacting with freshwater springs in the lakebed.
—
Emily Pennington,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 Feb. 2022
The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms.
—
Douglas Preston,
The New Yorker,
7 Dec. 2020
Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake.
—
Tegan Hanlon,
Anchorage Daily News,
15 June 2018
In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular.
—
Kieran Dodds,
Smithsonian,
20 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tarn
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That's the advice Allegheny County's parks department gave locals after a bear was spotted in a lake north of Pittsburgh, with the department issuing a warning in partnership with Allegheny County Police Department on June 16.
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From there, drive to the small lake town of Winona Lake to browse the little shops along the waterfront.
Noun
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Two dead ducks were found in a pond about 250 feet away from the pool.
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On the other side of the pond, billions of phones are ending up in landfills with their processing components still intact.
Noun
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Glen Canyon Dam that provides power for millions of people depends on the same reservoirs already sitting at historic lows this year.
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What to read next The growing number of TNO discoveries ultimately established that Pluto was part of the Kuiper Belt, a vast reservoir of icy bodies extending beyond Neptune's orbit.
Noun
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One even pulled me around a lagoon like a Jet Ski with a blowhole.
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Get ready to go do a folk dance to ward off the creature from the black lagoon in Universal Studios’ Eggersland someday.
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The sprawling coastal property encompasses roughly 3,700 acres of pastureland, woodlands, lochs, and more than three miles of dramatic shoreline.
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Covering roughly 260 kilometers from Glasgow to the west coast of Scotland, the West Highland Line is one of the most beautiful routes in the world, offering an ever-changing landscape of rugged mountains, mirror-like lochs, and remote moorlands.
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Global warming has also increased the temperature of the lough, encouraging the abundant blooms.
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Along with a grassy walled garden, an arboretum, the property has nearly three miles of lough frontage and shooting rights across a total of 3,000 acres.
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“Tarn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tarn. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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