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Antarctica is surrounded by a vast ocean, giving its sea ice plenty of room to spread outward during the Southern Hemisphere's winter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
These records stood in stark contrast to conditions at the opposite pole, where Arctic sea ice was undergoing a steep decline.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Sea ice produces a stronger microwave signal than open ocean water, allowing researchers to distinguish frozen areas from ice-free seas.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
The expansion became particularly noticeable between 2012 and 2014, when Antarctic winter sea ice set new record highs for three consecutive years.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Mindful of ice holes, they prodded the snow in front of them with arrows, which slowed them down even more.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
What ices it is that Quraishi offered to postpone this hearing given Judge Brann’s ruling that the office is operating illegally.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
As polar ices melt in the coming years, new shipping routes are expected to open up.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
These objects are similar to asteroids, except they contain ices such as water or carbon dioxide.
From Salon ● May 16, 2024
The model the researchers created for the study accounts for this change and suggests that the highly volatile ices in these objects stick around much longer than was previously thought.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024
Sometimes she writes responses for them: And do you remember when we ate pistachios, when we ate those lemon ices shaped like flowers?
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Mandel is batting a fly away near her iced coffee when I point out that she and I met at a party in Silver Lake, just a short jaunt from where we’re sitting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
He held an Arizona iced tea in one hand and his Rottweiler mix Lady in the other.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
In Baghdad, young professionals sipped iced coffee and typed on laptops in the exclusive Karrada neighborhood on a recent, seemingly peaceful day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
She brought an iced coffee to a job interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
“No? I would like a glass of iced yaupon holly tea and, well, actually, I need directions. I have to find my way back to my auntie’s to make one hundred pieces of frybread.”
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
The researchers compare this arrangement to chocolate chips embedded in a cookie, while organic dye molecules covering the outside resemble icing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Getting the color and appearance right for the icing on cupcakes alone required a nearly thirtyfold increase in natural ingredients.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
It might also mean a thick slice of homemade apple Bundt cake under a generous coat of cream cheese icing, eaten with coffee.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
"The festival is only just starting but this feels like the icing on the cake already."
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
He said the snow tasted like icing without vanilla in it.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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