atlas
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Almost every resident carries a private atlas of vanished places: Regal Cinema, the old Coffee House, Urdu bookshops in Daryaganj, winter evenings at India Gate before barricades and security cordons reshaped the city.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
"It's a good idea to carry a road atlas for back-up, too."
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
Three years later, their partnership has produced an unprecedented body of knowledge about hundreds of protist species and laid the groundwork for a "planetary atlas" of plankton.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
One of the early documents that Mr. Cheshire found is an atlas produced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge between 1829 and 1844.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
It had baked all afternoon on a table by a south-facing window in the library, and now three fine meandering lines in the glaze, converging like rivers in an atlas, were all that showed.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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