atlas
Example Sentences
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Researchers at The Rockefeller University built the most detailed atlas so far of how aging affects thousands of cell subtypes across 21 mammalian tissues.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026
"It's a good idea to carry a road atlas for back-up, too."
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
Three years later, their partnership has produced an unprecedented body of knowledge about hundreds of protist species and laid the groundwork for a "planetary atlas" of plankton.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
One of the early documents that Mr. Cheshire found is an atlas produced by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge between 1829 and 1844.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The priest drew his chair up to the table and licked his fingers before turning the pages of the great atlas.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
