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iceberg

[ahys-burg] / ˈaɪs bɜrg /


NOUN
cold fish
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"This name is the tip of the iceberg," Yeni leader Ozgur Ozel told a party meeting on Wednesday, describing the scandal as "the robbery of the century".

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

“We are just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of the legal questions about what is being offered on prediction markets,” said John Holden, an Indiana University business law professor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The cases that have come to light across Indonesia in recent years may be just the "tip of the iceberg", the commission on violence against women, or Komnas Perempuan, warned in a statement in May.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

As always, the actual complaints are just the tip of the iceberg.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

“Yeah, yeah, and you steered the Titanic into that iceberg too,” Pouncey scolds me.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Von der Leyen's tour included a boat trip among icebergs, meetings with top Greenlandic and Danish officials and the signing a joint statement between Greenland and the European Union.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

A glacial earthquake is created when tall, thin icebergs fall off the end of a glacier into the ocean.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

"While large, tabular icebergs are relatively common in the Southern Ocean that surrounds the Antarctic Ice Sheet, Arctic ice islands are far rarer," explains Dr. Anna Crawford of the University of Stirling.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

I instead recall coasting past a flotilla of icebergs in Alaska’s Glacier Bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The night before, Thula had awakened suddenly, screaming about icebergs and a huge ship sinking and people calling out for help.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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