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dome

[dohm] / doʊm /


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Van Tassel said he received telepathic instructions for building a metal-free dome that could generate electrostatic energy and eventually help rejuvenate cells and make time travel possible.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Additionally, the heat dome in the region has been moving away eastward, allowing for the moisture to build up in the atmosphere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

I soon found myself clambering on hands and knees in my swim shorts into a dirt-floored dome made from sticks and blankets, and sitting cross-legged as red-hot volcanic stones were laid in a central pit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The group is planning to build a new dome and telescope while carrying out repairs and building a new floor.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

The trunk was large and rectangular, made of wood and trimmed in brass-studded leather, with a curved lid in the shape of a dome.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

The residents of Drop City, a Colorado artists’ community, built domes from the curved steel tops of salvaged cars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

At Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, the capital's large medieval monastery and cultural heritage site, the golden domes of the Dormition Cathedral were hit.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

Lava domes develop when thick magma slowly rises to the surface and piles up around a volcanic opening rather than flowing easily away.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

But what an image: an observatory dome bubbling out of a boil of smaller domes, like an idea simmering in a crucible.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Of crossing the desert, seeing those glittering domes with his own eyes, and finding out, at last, what happened to the Unseen City.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

At the time, the Hollywood mogul and actress unveiled ambitious plans to dramatically overhaul the estate with a 27,000-square-foot, five-story riding facility featuring a domed roof and underground horse stables.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

The researchers envision beginning inside enormous domed habitats about 100 meters tall.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026

The Monticello we know today presents itself as a compact unity, prefaced by a classical temple front and crowned by an octagonal dome—the first domed house in America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Three of the 16 venues to be used this summer — in Atlanta, Houston and Arlington, Texas — are domed and climate-controlled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

He gritted his teeth against the chill and passed under the domed mosaic arches as quietly as he could.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

This means exercising the feet with toe curls and foot doming.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2022

I understood what was happening as I was sucked back and down under a ceiling of doming water.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2020

“I mean, you lived through so many changes. The last gasp of industrialization. Climate change remediation. The doming of the cities. Rewilding on every continent. The death of scarcity. The privacy wars. What’s it like?”

From The Verge ● Feb. 6, 2019

Spreading is hypothesized to start within a continental area with up-warping or doming related to an underlying mantle plume or series of mantle plumes.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

The saplings shuddered with every tug he made, and they all grew taller and thicker, doming inward, until they touched at the top.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack




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