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glaciate

[gley-shee-eyt, -see-] / ˈgleɪ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- /


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Around him, candles burn in the frigid breeze and flowers glaciate at their stems.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

The event affected every glaciated region of the state except the Brooks Range.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

Northern Pakistan is also one of the most glaciated areas in the region, but these are rapidly thinning and retreating because of climate change - meaning rocks, soil, and other debris can be dislodged.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2025

“It’s one of the few places in the Lower 48 where you can see glaciated terrain within half an hour of a trailhead. There’s no place like it.”

From Seattle Times Jan. 8, 2023

That such a lush ecosystem could exist a half-million years into the Pleistocene suggests Greenland hadn’t yet fully glaciated, or the ecosystem arose during a warm interglacial period.

From Science Magazine Dec. 6, 2022

The lower end of Kerm Land, the mountainous southernmost peninsula of the Karhide semi-continent, is, like the north, glaciated.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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