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as in sea
the whole body of salt water that covers nearly three-fourths of the earth
the ocean still holds mysteries that we are only beginning to unravel
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as in abyss
an immeasurable depth or space
with a single bound from the top of the cliff, he propelled the hang glider into the ocean of air over the valley
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Recent Examples of ocean
The demos earlier this year ended just minutes after liftoff, raining wreckage into the ocean.
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Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Photo by Matt Sampson Photography/Shutterstock Door County, Wisconsin Distance: Four and a half hours by car
Best for: Exploring rugged coastline
A 70-mile-long peninsula, Door County is all kinds of coastal fun without the ocean.
—Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 28 May 2025
On this test flight, SpaceX aimed the booster for a hard splashdown in the ocean just offshore from Starbase, rather than a mid-air catch back at the launch pad, which SpaceX accomplished on three of its four most recent test flights.
—ArsTechnica, 28 May 2025
Slow Horses ribs that aspect of the genre as a whole premise, but even Slough House probably would not lose more than one fighter plane in the ocean.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 May 2025
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Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2025
Photo by Matt Sampson Photography/Shutterstock Door County, Wisconsin Distance: Four and a half hours by car
Best for: Exploring rugged coastline
A 70-mile-long peninsula, Door County is all kinds of coastal fun without the ocean.
—Katherine Lagrave, AFAR Media, 28 May 2025
On this test flight, SpaceX aimed the booster for a hard splashdown in the ocean just offshore from Starbase, rather than a mid-air catch back at the launch pad, which SpaceX accomplished on three of its four most recent test flights.
—ArsTechnica, 28 May 2025
Slow Horses ribs that aspect of the genre as a whole premise, but even Slough House probably would not lose more than one fighter plane in the ocean.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ocean
Noun
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Sucker-punched by surprise storms and kayoed by hurricanes, it has been swamped, splintered and even swept out to sea on nearly a dozen occasions — always to rise from the sand for that next bout with nature.—
Mike Klingaman,
Baltimore Sun,
26 May 2025
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That’s because storing oil at sea is more expensive than on land and a measure of last resort in extreme cases when onshore storage appears to run out.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
Noun
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She’s headed back into the abyss and that cycle of suffering and escape and return that’s moved and frustrated viewers across the years.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
27 May 2025
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Technology was seen as both salvation and abyss, a force capable of transcending human limits, but also one that could eclipse the human altogether.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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The gulf between January and now might not be quite as wide as all that.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
30 May 2025
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Trump will then attend a summit with gulf leaders on Wednesday, travel to Qatar that same day and end the trip Thursday in the United Arab Emirates.—
Nabih Bulos,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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“Ocean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ocean. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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