How to Use atlas in a Sentence

atlas

noun
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  • This atlas of the body, as known through the senses, tells a child where skin ends and the world begins.
    — Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • This is the first atlas of what a normal human body looks like in space.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 5 July 2024
  • Even an atlas isn’t sufficient to map the chaotic ebb and flow of this war.
    — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Then Malley asked for an atlas that was sitting on the table, and for a pen.
    — Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
  • Effects of climate warming, such as the changes in sea ice, are detailed in the atlas.
    — Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The atlas, many of its pages weathered and torn, included a list of patrons and maps.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Nov. 2020
  • For Ajay, 11, the answer to the conflict was evident in his atlas.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • And that, ultimately, is the best way to think about a human atlas.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan wondered: What about atlases, which are books of maps?
    — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2017
  • The atlas also honed his ability to find countries on the map.
    — Allie Caren, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • His invention was born of a childhood rapt by the beauty of an atlas.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Work on the atlas began in 2016, and its organisers hope to complete the effort by the end of this decade.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Dozens of experts and volunteers compiled the atlas over the course of five years, Morris writes.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 June 2017
  • One objective is to prepare a three-dimensional atlas of both the near and far sides of the moon.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • Much like an atlas, each page of this project reveals something telling and different about the city at hand.
    — Dan Singer, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The result is a remarkable atlas charting where New York has gone, and why.
    — Amy Rose Spiegel, New Republic, 27 July 2017
  • The atlas spans short missions, long missions, males and females.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 5 July 2024
  • Listening to them back to back is like getting hit in the head by an atlas written by the Chamber of Commerce.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Monthly sky maps take the place of a planisphere in this atlas, which covers both the northern and southern hemisphere.
    — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Over the years, the Allen Institute has used mice and the brains of cadavers to create atlases of where various genes are expressed in the brain.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The team compared the cell-type atlas of the bearded dragon’s brain to that of the mouse’s brain, and found that the cell types in broad brain regions correspond to one another.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2022
  • But there was definitely something that made the Army Corps of Engineers put that in the atlas.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2019
  • Four fossilized backbones of the ancient salamander were unearthed, including the atlas at the top of the spine that allows the head to nod.
    — Fox News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • In a few years, DESI won’t be the only sweeping galactic atlas in town.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 13 Jan. 2022
  • One way to understand his art is as an atlas of the imagination.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Imagine such a ballad serving as the atlas of a borderless world. . . .
    — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • In June, a Canadian and German team introduced what is arguably the most detailed 3-D atlas of the brain so far.
    — Kat McGowan, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2014
  • Jon Randall first discovered Marfa by looking at an atlas and picking the spot in the middle of nowhere in Texas.
    — Rachel Burchfield, Country Living, 22 June 2021
  • But Suntok’s field notes contained a vital clue: near the shoulder-blade fragment, the lawyer found a fossilized atlas—the vertebra from the base of a whale’s skull.
    — Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Eleven grants are going to groups that are building a comprehensive atlas of the brain, a sort of parts list and 3D map of what cells are there and how they are organized.
    — Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 26 Sep. 2022

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