submersion
Example Sentences
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Early land art, like Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” now serves as a warning about climate change due to its increasing submersion and re-emergence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
"The submersion caused by the rapid rise in sea level, followed by the abandonment of fishing structures, protective works, and habitation sites, must have left a lasting impression."
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2025
The prevention of drowning—which is defined as submersion in liquid that impairs breathing and, contrary to common knowledge, isn’t always fatal—is, in some ways, straightforward.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2024
Driver describes working with Mann as a submersion into technical mastery, though not without its moments of invention.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023
“Beyond doubt that he was alive at the time of submersion? Is that what it says, Horace?”
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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