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glacier

[gley-sher] / ˈgleɪ ʃər /
NOUN
mountain of ice, snow
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This connection supports the idea that they originated in the glacier and may have remained associated with Ötzi for thousands of years.

From Science Daily Aug. 7, 2026

Little relief is expected in much of Europe over the weekend, and a glacier research team in Switzerland has warned that the heatwave is being felt in the mountains too.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Tsunami or glacier, Japan’s unique household savings pool will be in play if the decades of deflation are really over.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

The fairways may be wide and forgiving, but hitting at the greens can feel like trying to land the ball on a glacier.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 18, 2026

The glacier had been over these mountainsides, in the hundreds of thousands of years it had been grinding back and forth across the North.

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

The Icelandic sense, he tells us, was that people may pass, but the glaciers were eternal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

There is certainly an unhurried pace to poet and playwright Andri Snær Magnason’s ruminations on his island nation’s disappearing glaciers, and a meditative quality to the film’s startlingly beautiful visuals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

"These landscapes are changing fast, and arctic and alpine glaciers might be some of the first habitats lost completely to climate change," she said.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Huss said Switzerland had already lost 1,200 glaciers in the past 50 years, and there now only 1,300 left.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

Inkling ignores me. “—there developed a shortage. All the squash growing among the glaciers was harvested by humans to cook into pies and serve with turkey.”

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins




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