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mantle

[man-tl] / ˈmæn tl /


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In Argentina, the reward is the mantle of having "infinite aura."

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

According to him, America would have burst into flames and melted into the bedrock mantle if he hadn’t come to town.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

Ethel Caterham, who lives at Hallmark Lakeview Care Home in Lightwater, took on the mantle in April 2025 after the death of Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas at the age of 116.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Wyle: They’re on the mantle at the moment, at home.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

They radiate through Earth’s mantle and core, having little effect on Earth’s surface.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

To my knowledge, Carney’s creator is neither crook nor salesman, but Whitehead can lay claim to those other two mantles.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

He has shown an interest, perhaps un-Spurs-like, in seizing mantles like league MVP and being the future “face” of the sport.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

“Uranus and Neptune have disordered magnetic fields because they produce these fields in a thin water-rich layer in their mantles while our Earth generates its magnetic field in the core,” Militzer said.

From Salon Dec. 1, 2024

Unlike most animals, whose eyes feature retinas that send images to the brain, scallops have mantles covered with hundreds of tiny blue dots, each of which contains a curved mirror at its back.

From Science Magazine Apr. 13, 2023

Over chair-backs in hall they dropped their mantles and passed in to the polished tubs, where maids poured out warm baths for them, anointed them, and pulled fresh tunics, fleecy cloaks around them.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Even as blue skies return, flood-weary farmers in the San Joaquin Valley have only to look east, to the towering Sierra mantled in snow, to know there is worse to come.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 24, 2023

But low methylation — Bad Karma — results in mantled fruit.

From Nature Mar. 14, 2017

Mateo has also studied golden mantled ground squirrels, which recognize kin but don't react in an obvious way.

From National Geographic Jul. 25, 2015

Chorizo is mantled with a parsley-heavy chimichurri and an unexpectedly nuanced aioli made with aji panca, a smoky-fruity Peruvian red pepper.

From New York Times Jun. 6, 2013

They climbed Parnassos’ rugged flank mantled in forest, entering amid high windy folds at noon when Helios beat upon the valley floor and on the winding Ocean whence he came.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

As he gobbled the bloody morsel, he spread his wings, fanned his tail and arched his body over the food — an instinct known as mantling, protecting the prey from other predators.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2018

The hawklet then covered the entire meal with his wings, a behavior known as mantling, which hawks employ to hide their kills from other birds of prey who might be flying by.

From Washington Post Jun. 29, 2017

For some time she had experienced the sensation of clouds coming over her, mantling thought.

From New York Times Apr. 30, 2016

He saw the superb polish, the fresh padding, and the new mantling set behind.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

He lifted the helm to his nose and sniffed the mantling.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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