submerged

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Over a decade ago, Suzanne Mettler’s book “The Submerged State” revealed that Americans often don’t recognize what government does, even if they directly benefit from it.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2025

Submerged roadways, mudslides and record-setting rainfall have transformed the Southland city into an obstacle course out of the apocalypse, the very scene you’d see in a movie before everything goes full dystopia.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Submerged fields lie bereft of the tomatoes and Pima cotton that would ordinarily fill them, an agricultural Atlantis larger than Manhattan.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2023

Dave Conlin, an archaeologist and chief of the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center in Colorado, said the exposure of cultural artifacts due to climate change—particularly in aquatic settings—is damaging for two reasons.

From Scientific American • Oct. 31, 2022

Submerged as she had been in her own desolation she had given no heed to the small figure which came slipping along beside her beyond the bare thought that she was queer-looking.

From Lifted Masks; stories by Glaspell, Susan