ocean
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You can’t bail out the ocean just by using a bigger bucket.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
Years later, Raissa gets accepted to Caltech, so the friends will be parted by an ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The adventure she relates would seem to have little in common with hoary maritime tradition, except that it takes place amid the shifting vastness of the ocean under skies of treacherous winds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
This refers to the difference between energy entering the region from the Sun, atmosphere, and ocean and infrared energy escaping back into space.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
“And I’m guessing that’s the basket,” he said, pointing to the large border wall where security officers stood by an open door, the blue of the ocean showing just behind them.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Together, those traits may allow the birds to remain underwater longer while foraging in oceans with relatively low biological productivity.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
This measures how warm the key El Niño region is relative to the rest of the tropical oceans, meaning it takes into account the background warming caused by climate change.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
At least the U.S. and Russia, oceans apart from each other, had half an hour to sort out the confusion before the missiles would land if they had been real.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2026
El Niño is adding heat to oceans that were warming up anyway, creating conditions conducive to storms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
He didn’t, of course; there were oceans and continents between Delaware and Turkey, but he imagined how it would all unfold.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing ocean
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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