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surface

[sur-fis] / ˈsɜr fɪs /






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The Japan Meteorological Agency last week declared this El Nino the strongest on record based on how far sea surface temperatures were above normal in the Nino3 region of the eastern Pacific.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

The terrific Ms. Rabe, rarely absent from New York stages for long, reveals a similarly steely spine beneath Brooke’s surface fragilities as a long-delayed conflagration between mother and daughter threatens to erupt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

On the surface, higher-education institutions, especially the nation’s most selective ones, are taking the dip in computer-science enrollment in stride.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

Once on the surface, it will deploy a robotic arm and two samplers to grab some moon dust.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

They remain as still as the surface of the grimy water below.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Shakoor has been told that unless new information surfaces, Essex Police will review the case in a decade's time.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

But a Columbia University research team has found that when water molecules come into contact with plastic surfaces, a key chemical reaction does in fact take place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

It praised Entalpic’s “expertise in surfaces and interfaces for semiconductor manufacturing and next-generation electronics.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

And by the time the symptom surfaces, the damage is often irreversible.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

“Light or dark, the particles still fly off the surfaces of things.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The latest evidence of that surfaced this week when the TV Academy announced a six-year deal with Amazon Prime Video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Reports soon surfaced that Schmitt’s general counsel Ethan Harper, who stood behind him holding the infamous poster, saw his potential White House staff position being placed into immediate jeopardy.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

Yet diesel’s rise hasn’t fully surfaced in grocery-store aisles — so far at least.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

The trading pattern on Kalshi was surfaced on X by Benoit Dubosson, a former quantitative trader who focuses on crypto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

And right below that, something new surfaced: a weird fury.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

“Grain-the dominant growth engine for both carriers through 2026-should remain healthy in absolute terms, but fade rapidly in terms of outsized growth contribution, increasing the importance of replacement growth surfacing elsewhere,” the analysts write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

"We are conscious that some of this evidence is still surfacing but the direction of travel is consistent across multiple, independent, and in some cases very large, bodies of research," the letter continued.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Children can, at times, sense their parents’ trauma surfacing in seemingly unrelated interactions, when Mom loses her temper or Dad goes silent.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

If the same concern keeps surfacing in different forms, the conversation hasn’t actually happened yet.

From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026

The scene kept surfacing in my memory like lightning on a dark rainy night, and each time it happened, I heard a sharp cry in my head that made my spine hurt.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah


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