tropics
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"The Northern Lights may be distant from the tropics, but the horizons we seek are increasingly one and the same," Indian lawmaker Shashi Tharoor wrote, in the Indian Express daily.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
"It was hard sometimes but getting dressed up every day, and spending months in the tropics with 30 of my friends was so much fun," he said.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
This large-scale system influences global climate by carrying warm, salty surface waters northward and sending cooler waters back toward the tropics at depth.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025
What La Niña and El Niño don’t affect, however, are “atmospheric rivers,” which can carry tremendous amounts of rain and snow to California from the tropics, Ralph said.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
The sun rose to its zenith and poured down merciless heat; afternoon came; then the sudden night of the tropics swallowed them in blackness.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
Vocabulary lists containing tropics
Southeast Asia - Introductory
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Southeast Asia - Middle School
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Southeast Asia - High School
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