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glaciers

NOUN
mountain of ice, snow
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The Icelandic sense, he tells us, was that people may pass, but the glaciers were eternal.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Sara Dosa’s latest documentary follows Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason as he reflects on his country’s diminishing glaciers and how they connect with his ancestry.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

"These landscapes are changing fast, and arctic and alpine glaciers might be some of the first habitats lost completely to climate change," she said.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

Much of the water that flows into the Rhine and the Rhone, two of Europe's major rivers, comes from the Alpine glaciers.

From Barron's Jun. 27, 2026

Voices or the tolling of bells or glaciers cleaving in two or cliffs crumbling to dust.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee



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