dome
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"We have a new pillar going up through the floor, new dome and a new telescope to carry us forward for a number of decades to come."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
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
Texas is in the middle of another heat dome.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
A lava dome has been forming near the center of Kikai caldera for approximately 3,900 years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Everything looked old about it, old and tended, the smooth brick sidewalks, the many-paned windows, the little dome on top of the main building.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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
Over time, vegetation spreading beyond the domes could gradually add oxygen to the wider atmosphere, although the team estimates that natural oxygen production alone would require roughly a thousand years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 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
Today, the two lava domes sit side by side in the crater of the mountain.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
The researchers envision beginning inside enormous domed habitats about 100 meters tall.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
Whatever these domed stadiums are, they’re not nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Three of the 16 venues to be used this summer — in Atlanta, Houston and Arlington, Texas — are domed and climate-controlled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
The village's gas plant has turned 10, so locals made a cake shaped like the two domed gas tanks.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
He directs the cart toward what was once the cafeteria, and we follow him until he’s in the smaller open room connected to the domed great room.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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