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dome

[dohm] / doʊm /


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The refurbishment also included conservation work on the theatre's All the World's a Stage dome painting.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Texas is in the middle of another heat dome.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

A lava dome has been forming near the center of Kikai caldera for approximately 3,900 years.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

US lawmakers gathered beneath the Capitol dome Tuesday to honor Republican senator Lindsey Graham, beginning a day of mourning set to draw President Donald Trump and world leaders to Washington.

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

I kept my eyes straight ahead, unwilling to look behind me at that gold shining dome that had accepted all our deepest wishes just a few hours back.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant

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

The marine heatwave has been fuelled by the "heat domes" that brought record-breaking air temperatures in May and June, on top of long-term ocean warming due to climate change.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

"While heat domes are a natural weather phenomenon, anthropogenic climate change is making heatwaves more severe and more likely to reach record-breaking temperatures," she added.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

It was one of the most beautiful buildings in Ravenskill, with onion domes and high spires that looked like they reached the clouds sometimes.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

The researchers envision beginning inside enormous domed habitats about 100 meters tall.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

There are several variables when it comes to up-front and ongoing costs of using grass, especially in domed stadiums where permanent ultraviolet grow-light systems, drainage and irrigation would need to be installed.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 2026

WSJ: How are today’s domed stadiums different from those of the past?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

Workers were seen assembling domed arches and a staging area, which based on online renderings, will form an octagon-shaped ring surrounded by a wire-mesh fence and thousands of temporary seats.

From BBC May 27, 2026

There the stair was covered by a small domed chamber in the midst of the roof, with low doors facing east and west.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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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