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iceberg

[ahys-burg] / ˈaɪs bɜrg /


NOUN
cold fish
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The cases that have come to light across Indonesia in recent years may be just the "tip of the iceberg", the commission on violence against women, or Komnas Perempuan, warned in a statement in May.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

As always, the actual complaints are just the tip of the iceberg.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

“This isn’t even the tip of the iceberg on what parents have emailed teachers about,” said Gina Wynn, a health and wellness influencer who taught elementary school for 14 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

By July 16, federal officials had identified 1,644 illnesses among people who reported eating at the chain, with ingredient-level analysis strongly pointing to iceberg lettuce.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

Once you've been to Venice you turn from iceberg lettuce.

From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan

Von der Leyen's tour included a boat trip among icebergs, meetings with top Greenlandic and Danish officials and the signing a joint statement between Greenland and the European Union.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Although Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth, direct evidence of glacial earthquakes caused by capsizing icebergs there has been elusive.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

I instead recall coasting past a flotilla of icebergs in Alaska’s Glacier Bay.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

The size and makeup of the particles also revealed that the main source of iron was not dust, but icebergs calved from West Antarctica.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 2026

Adélie penguins surveyed them from passing icebergs and called, “Clark! Clark!”—which was the name of the expedition’s biologist.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong




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