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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 rugged, remote region was hours from any towns, and featured low-lying hills, steep alpine cliffsides, and "even glaciated terrain", he said.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2024

Taiwan's central mountain range is one of the steepest landscapes on Earth and has one of the highest erosion rates of any place outside glaciated or human-influenced areas, Carr said.

From Science Daily Dec. 15, 2023

It used to be that the prime climbing season on glaciated Cascade peaks fell reliably between June and September.

From Seattle Times Nov. 4, 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

Emma shouted, and we all took off running after it, slipping and sliding on the ice, rounding the corner into the snow-choked alley that ran between the glaciated building and the one next to it.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs




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