surface
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On the surface, it seems like a typical smartphone available here in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The sea surface temperature at the Scripps Pier in La Jolla hit 76.8 degrees Thursday, approaching a daily record of 77 degrees set in 2015.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Richard Stone, from the space forecasting team, said it allowed them "to diagnose anything that's happening on the Sun's surface, provide a forecast and alert the relevant users to be able to take mitigating actions".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The United States is competing with China in the race to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030, more than 50 years after humans first walked the lunar surface.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Duane swam toward midship, where a set of steep stairs invited him up to a level still inside the ship but above the water’s surface.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
It could easily be an elongated version of one of her later pumpkins, rendered both in two dimensions and as sculptures, whose vibrant flesh and spotted surfaces have charmed so many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It urged legal changes and funding to help municipalities and cities unseal paved surfaces that store heat and to plant vastly more trees.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Johnson points out the new markings and road surfaces around us, claiming to have found the money from "waste" under the last administration, enabling him to increase the budget from £41,000 to £82,000.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
It is the seduction of surfaces Cusk is exploring here, the ways we are taken in by so much that is chimerical: lavish interiors, actors, our own doubled selves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements that they could not feel.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Rumblings of trouble surfaced in May—in Slate, no less.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2026
Doubts surfaced about where he would lead the Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
They said they were unaware of the company's difficulties until an investigative news story by the online magazine, The Cut, surfaced in September 2025.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
The same statement had been used by the White House last month when questions about the aircraft's safety first surfaced.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
In the water now and then a whale surfaced, with its booming deepwater sound, shooting out jets of water high into the air.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
This comes as old and new challenges are surfacing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
Chunks of Trump’s beloved “American flag blue” paint job are surfacing.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
Instead of surfacing web results, the new Siri can actually answer your question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Chatbots have evolved from simple assistants into chatty companions, image generators have become dangerously good at making photorealistic content and new advanced models are said to be surfacing decades-old software bugs.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
There’s that word again, “damage,” the one that’s been sinking and surfacing, sinking and surfacing in my mind since the genetic test.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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