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dome

[dohm] / doʊm /


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It was partially thanks to him that the Huntington recently acquired an extensive archive documenting the dome and the postwar UFO community that cohered around its creator, ufologist George Van Tassel.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

Keele Observatory astronomer James Albinson is volunteering to use his expertise to help build the new dome and telescope.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

A heat dome early in the month threatened World Cup matches and curbed celebrations of America’s 250th birthday.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Their "presence under this dome is the beginning of a path that must go beyond symbolism to legislation and influence".

From Barron's Aug. 7, 2026

Then, beginning in December 1980, a lava dome in the middle of the new summit crater began to grow.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

At Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the capital's large medieval monastery and cultural heritage site, the golden domes of the Dormition Cathedral were hit.

From BBC Aug. 31, 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

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

On the other spread the city of Venice—red-tiled roofs, metal church domes, steepled towers, and sun-bleached buildings in all the colors of Valentine candy hearts—red, white, ochre, pink, and orange.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

The stock price of parent Sphere Entertainment has more than doubled in the last year, and the domed venue grossed $379 million last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

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

There's plenty of condensation on the walls and domed roof, and the soil is certainly absorbing its fair share.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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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