dome
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Their "presence under this dome is the beginning of a path that must go beyond symbolism to legislation and influence".
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
The refurbishment also included conservation work on the theatre's All the World's a Stage dome painting.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Chemical studies have shown that material from this dome and other recent volcanic activity differs from the magma released during the giant eruption.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
And under a climate change–driven heat dome that fuels more storms, the forests are all the more susceptible to inopportune lightning strikes.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
“The rim was chopped off above Northwest dome, more than a thousand feet below yesterday’s summit,” he remembered.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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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
Heat domes also cause "dry thunderstorms" where rain evaporates before hitting the surface and lightning strikes are liable to trigger wildfires.
From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026
The marine heatwave has been fuelled by the "heat domes" that brought record-breaking air temperatures in May and June, on top of long-term ocean warming due to climate change.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Surely no other place on earth was more proud of its beauty than Venice, and as he watched its spires and domes, each caught the sun as if trying to outshine one another.
From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke
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The researchers envision beginning inside enormous domed habitats about 100 meters tall.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
There are several variables when it comes to up-front and ongoing costs of using grass, especially in domed stadiums where permanent ultraviolet grow-light systems, drainage and irrigation would need to be installed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
WSJ: How are today’s domed stadiums different from those of the past?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Workers were seen assembling domed arches and a staging area, which based on online renderings, will form an octagon-shaped ring surrounded by a wire-mesh fence and thousands of temporary seats.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
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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