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Expedition participant and documentary executive producer Dan Snow holding Shackleton's book, South, atop an ice floe.
—Allegra Rosenberg, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2024
But through his Grand Ole Opry inflection constantly surfaces, like ice floes, the precision of Academe.
—Tom Burke, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
On July 31, 18 runners completed the marathon on an ice floe.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
The first polar bear sighted in Iceland since 2016, who traveled on an ice floe from Greenland, was shot dead.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
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First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above
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“Ice floe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20floe. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice floe
noun
: a flat free mass of floating sea ice
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