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shelf

[shelf] / ʃɛlf /


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Cut and welded from 5mm aluminum, the Bat Shelf comes in a raw aluminum finish or a powder-coated red.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

National Gas said it expected Britain to have enough gas for the summer - primarily from the UK Continental Shelf and Norway.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

That’s something that Westcott excelled at in her prior role running the Pluto LNG and the North West Shelf LNG projects in Australia, RBC says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

At the Dotson Ice Shelf, the team located where seawater flows into one of these cavities and where it exits after mixing with meltwater.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2026

One might be off the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica and communicate with another in the Aleutians.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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