dome
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A lava dome forms when relatively thick, viscous lava accumulates around a volcanic vent rather than flowing freely across the surrounding landscape.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
In a presentation, Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said the launch was delayed due to an issue with the manufacturing process for Neutron’s forward dome.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
"Go!" shouted Ivan Deforge, and without hesitation his 300-kilo hairy sidekicks Karym and Ural leapt through a ring of fire under the dome of the Great Moscow Circus.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
The Morel Corp. is building a stately eco dome on a remote Greek island: a refuge for plutocratic preppers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Three towers, each topped with a dome in dusky pink, gave it a look of wit and knowing intelligence, and its vast arched windows with their broad sills gave it solidity and purpose.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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The residents of Drop City, a Colorado artists’ community, built domes from the curved steel tops of salvaged cars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
It had an observatory and planetarium and featured custom-built domes, specialized solar-observation telescopes, and a natural science education centre.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Lava domes develop when thick magma slowly rises to the surface and piles up around a volcanic opening rather than flowing easily away.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
But what an image: an observatory dome bubbling out of a boil of smaller domes, like an idea simmering in a crucible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Some had domes and columned porticoes, like national monuments.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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We have given it the common name helmethead sea muppet, after the domed, helmet-like crest on its head.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
At the time, the Hollywood mogul and actress unveiled ambitious plans to dramatically overhaul the estate with a 27,000-square-foot, five-story riding facility featuring a domed roof and underground horse stables.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
WSJ: How are today’s domed stadiums different from those of the past?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Around back, an arrow, painted garnet against an otherwise beige facade, points toward a red door sheltered by a small, domed awning.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
In the center loomed a large, domed hut made of bones and greenish leather.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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This means exercising the feet with toe curls and foot doming.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
I understood what was happening as I was sucked back and down under a ceiling of doming water.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2020
“I mean, you lived through so many changes. The last gasp of industrialization. Climate change remediation. The doming of the cities. Rewilding on every continent. The death of scarcity. The privacy wars. What’s it like?”
From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2019
Spreading is hypothesized to start within a continental area with up-warping or doming related to an underlying mantle plume or series of mantle plumes.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The saplings shuddered with every tug he made, and they all grew taller and thicker, doming inward, until they touched at the top.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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