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dune

[doon, dyoon] / dun, dyun /


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Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The council also urged people to stay well clear of the dune face and take heed of warning signs in the area.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

At Monte Clérigo, researchers identified 5 trackways and 26 individual footprints created by adults and by children slightly over a year old on the slope of what was once a coastal dune.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

You could not tell what was a sand dune and what was a snow mound.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

How we longed to poke that dune with the sample arm, look for life beneath that rock, see if that distant ridge was a crater rampart.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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