tropics
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"The Northern Lights may be distant from the tropics, but the horizons we seek are increasingly one and the same," Indian lawmaker Shashi Tharoor wrote, in the Indian Express daily.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
"It was hard sometimes but getting dressed up every day, and spending months in the tropics with 30 of my friends was so much fun," he said.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
The storm is slated to come from the tropics southwest of the California coast.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025
BELÉM, Brazil—Holding a climate summit in the tropics would seem to be a good idea.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The heat of the tropics, the descent, the search for food, and now this sweaty march along the blazing beach had given them the complexions of newly washed plums.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Vocabulary lists containing tropics
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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Southeast Asia - High School
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