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- noun Plural form of
iceberg .
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Examples
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_A glacier running down a steep narrow canyon and out into the deep water, and forming icebergs at its point, would maintain its slender, tongue-like form, and drop its débris on each side, forming parallel ridges, and would not form a terminal moraine because the materials not dropped previously would be carried off by icebergs_.
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The same people who used to fish now harvest icebergs from a floating barge, using a grapple crane to break off chunks of ice.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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The same people who used to fish now harvest icebergs from a floating barge, using a grapple crane to break off chunks of ice.
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The former vice president’s film shows dramatic film of big chunks of ice breaking off glaciers, but the “calving” of icebergs is a normal, natural process involved in the growth of glaciers into the sea.
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Icebergs are not melting because the ocean is warming up, but because the icebergs are actually expanding into warming waters.
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Icebergs are not melting because the ocean is warming up, but because the icebergs are actually expanding into warming waters.
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Icebergs are not melting because the ocean is warming up, but because the icebergs are actually expanding into warming waters.
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Icebergs are not melting because the ocean is warming up, but because the icebergs are actually expanding into warming waters.
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Our icebergs are the hidden emotions that we and others forget about until we bump into them.
Nurturing Spirituality in Children Ph.D. Peggy Joy Jenkins 2008
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Large bodies of ice, called icebergs, filled up the valleys between high mountains, so dark as, when contrasted with the snow, to appear black.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993
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