- plural of tropic.
tropics
Example Sentences
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Heat still has to move away from the tropics.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
No two El Niños are alike, but the disruption is felt most sharply in the tropics.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
Because Earth's axis is tilted relative to its orbit, areas outside the tropics experience one yearly peak in solar radiation near the summer solstice.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
"The Northern Lights may be distant from the tropics, but the horizons we seek are increasingly one and the same," Indian lawmaker Shashi Tharoor wrote, in the Indian Express daily.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
On the island of Java, in Indonesia, lived Homo soloensis, ‘Man from the Solo Valley’, who was suited to life in the tropics.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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