dome
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Oregon's Multnomah County, for example, is suing fossil fuel giants for more than $51 billion over pollution that fueled a deadly 2021 heat dome in the Pacific Northwest, during which hundreds died.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
About the size of a cookie, each array contains eight quartz corner cube prisms mounted inside a dome shaped aluminum frame.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Both heatwaves were caused by a "heat dome" - a stalled area of high pressure that trapped hot air over the region, say experts.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
June was particularly brutal for Europe as a "heat dome" -- a high-pressure system acting like a lid on a boiling pot -- led to all-time and monthly temperature records in several countries.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
I sat under the dome light of the airplane, worried that I’d somehow blown it with those fourteen stupid words.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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"We know that heat domes are, of course, a natural part of the climate system," Marc Alessi, a climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in a briefing.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
"While heat domes are a natural weather phenomenon, anthropogenic climate change is making heatwaves more severe and more likely to reach record-breaking temperatures," she added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
The challenge is to prove that visually-overwhelming domes can do any better.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
The harsh environment would confine people to domes or underground shelters, where boredom and isolation would be real dangers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
Byzantine domes hovered over the city like rising balloons.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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WSJ: How are today’s domed stadiums different from those of the past?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The group placed three old-school arcade-style games inside the Neoclassical DC War Memorial, which is located near the Reflecting Pool in Ash Woods and resembles a domed, open-air bandstand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Though, he adds, "The LEDs are designed by our team so they are pretty unique for those doubly curved, effectively domed displays."
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026
The domed blue ceiling is mottled with pinpricks of shining light, like stars emerging in the darkness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
The domed ceiling of the enormous hall was covered with delicate hand paintings and Latin phrases written in decorative script.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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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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