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ecology

[ih-kol-uh-jee, ee-kol-] / ɪˈkɒl ə dʒi, iˈkɒl- /
NOUN
environmental science
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STRONGEST


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It submitted plans for the data centre on behalf of Google last year, and as part of the application, consultancy firm Mallory Land Ltd said the proposals took into account the ecology there.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Newsom and his administration have touted the deals as a break with years of conflict that will benefit the Delta’s ecology.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The work offers new insights into human evolution, ecology, and modern attitudes toward insect-based foods.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Many marmot problems appear to revolve around their appetite for salt, which they find on sweat-stained hiking poles and backpack straps as well as radiator fluid, said Blumstein, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Since we know that outliers always have help along the way, can we sort through the ecology of Joe Flom and identify the conditions that helped create him?

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

The British architectural critic Reyner Banham wrote about the region’s four ecologies: the coast, the foothills, the flatlands and the freeways.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

While Mr Bhatia doesn’t think that urbanisation is evil, he points out that it can lead to the rather unscientific abandonment of traditions that were designed to serve systems and ecologies.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024

"But plastic bottles…become curses in our bodies and interconnected ecologies."

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2023

The wide-scale outbreaks have provided researchers with a new opportunity to fine-tune their understanding of the disease by studying which wild bird species, behaviors and ecologies play key roles in transmission.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022

Memetics is a popular topic for speculation among hackers, who like to see themselves as the architects of the new information ecologies in which memes live and replicate. :memory leak: n.

From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Eric S. Raymond




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