atlas
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An agreeable companion on the page, Mr. McCarthy prefers scenic parkways to multilane highways and amusingly relies on a Rand McNally road atlas instead of phone-enabled navigation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Researchers at The Rockefeller University built the most detailed atlas so far of how aging affects thousands of cell subtypes across 21 mammalian tissues.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026
"It's a good idea to carry a road atlas for back-up, too."
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
What followed was an interminable undertaking to create maps of individual countries, to be mailed to subscribers and later bound together as an atlas.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
Perhaps 'Mursden' will ring a bell for you, as it did for me upon my first spotting it on the road atlas yesterday.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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