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expedition

[ek-spi-dish-uhn] / ˌɛk spɪˈdɪʃ ən /




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Because that expedition was after invertebrates, the fish was mistakenly catalogued into the invertebrate collection of the South Australian Museum, where it sat unrecognized for years.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

The dredge that caught it was sampling for small shelled animals known as brachiopods during a natural history expedition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

ALI director Rick Pettigrew said the team was aware of the global interest in the expedition and would share its results "as soon as we are able".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Egged on by demagogues, Thucydides narrates, Athens embarked on a war of choice—the Sicilian expedition, the disastrous failure of which contributed to Athens’s eventual defeat in the Peloponnesian War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

After Discovery came his “Furthest South” expedition in 1908.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

In his latest Project 6 challenge, Dykes will attempt six expeditions in very different locations.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The Professor Molchanov, a ship that had been traversing Arctic waters on scientific expeditions for more than four decades, offered a workaround.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The expeditions explored seamounts near Isla del Coco and along Costa Rica's Pacific margin.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Friends and family describe Wolfe as a force of nature, often dressed in camouflage shorts and ready with stories of his travels, fishing expeditions and the objects surrounding him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

How he wished that he had been a scientist, instead of a house painter in Stillwater, so that he might have joined some of the great Polar expeditions.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater


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