coral reef
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She compares the human body to a coral reef, where animals, plants, and microscopic organisms “cohabitate as one huge and beautiful chimeric metaorganism.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
"We can still have fairly healthy corals in the future, but this requires more aggressive reductions in global emissions and strategic approaches to coral reef management"
From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2024
A coral reef is normally built out of lots of colonies of different kinds.
From NewsForKids.net • Nov. 27, 2024
Yet as coral reef ecologist Alexandra Dempsey explored the atolls’ beautiful coral reefs in 2015, she nevertheless found signs of human pollution.
From Salon • Nov. 21, 2024
Old-timers would lean against the corny papier-mache coral reef, sip their drinks, and mutter about the jovenes.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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