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glaciate

[gley-shee-eyt, -see-] / ˈgleɪ ʃiˌeɪt, -si- /


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Around him, candles burn in the frigid breeze and flowers glaciate at their stems.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

The event affected every glaciated region of the state except the Brooks Range.

From Science Daily Jun. 12, 2026

The rugged, remote region was hours from any towns, and featured low-lying hills, steep alpine cliffsides, and "even glaciated terrain", he said.

From BBC Nov. 27, 2024

As the climbing season shrinks, the glaciated peaks on Washington’s snowcapped volcanoes are becoming more difficult to reach.

From Seattle Times Nov. 4, 2023

That such a lush ecosystem could exist a half-million years into the Pleistocene suggests Greenland hadn’t yet fully glaciated, or the ecosystem arose during a warm interglacial period.

From Science Magazine Dec. 6, 2022

The lower end of Kerm Land, the mountainous southernmost peninsula of the Karhide semi-continent, is, like the north, glaciated.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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