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atlas

[at-luhs] / ˈæt ləs /






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Almost every resident carries a private atlas of vanished places: Regal Cinema, the old Coffee House, Urdu bookshops in Daryaganj, winter evenings at India Gate before barricades and security cordons reshaped the city.

From BBC May 25, 2026

First held in 2018, the week stems from the island's involvement with an online atlas of wildlife.

From BBC Apr. 25, 2026

The Conservatory project has created what researchers describe as a "comprehensive atlas of regulatory conservation across plants, including dozens of crop species and their wild ancestors."

From Science Daily Mar. 14, 2026

The full aging atlas is available to the public at epiage.net.

From Science Daily Feb. 28, 2026

It had baked all afternoon on a table by a south-facing window in the library, and now three fine meandering lines in the glaze, converging like rivers in an atlas, were all that showed.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

MRI-based atlases capture the brain's broad structure but not individual cells.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

"Most large atlases like this require large consortia with dozens of laboratories but our method is far more efficient than other approaches."

From Science Daily Feb. 28, 2026

His meticulous survey takes in dozens of sources, from the obscure to the well-known: pamphlets to legal codes, sermons to atlases, maps, travel narratives, even journals kept by ships’ captains.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2024

As in all atlases, there were two completely blank pages at the very end.

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl




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