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: a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier
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: an emotionally cold person
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Examples of iceberg in a Sentence
a brilliant doctor, no doubt, but both patients and staff complain that he is an iceberg
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In 2020, for instance, an iceberg twice the size of Washington, D.C. broke off Pine Island.
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
The icebergs were calved from Sermeq Kujalleq, the world's fastest moving glacier, and fill a space that is the equivalent of 66,000 football fields.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
The icebergs’ source, the Jakobshavn Glacier, is sometimes called an outlet glacier and sometimes an ice stream.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
What was the moment when the Titanic could have turned and maybe not hit the iceberg, or when Romeo or Juliet might not have drunk that poison and could have been together?
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
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Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
The icebergs were calved from Sermeq Kujalleq, the world's fastest moving glacier, and fill a space that is the equivalent of 66,000 football fields.
—Catherine Garcia, The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
The icebergs’ source, the Jakobshavn Glacier, is sometimes called an outlet glacier and sometimes an ice stream.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
What was the moment when the Titanic could have turned and maybe not hit the iceberg, or when Romeo or Juliet might not have drunk that poison and could have been together?
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
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iceberg
noun
ice·berg
ˈīs-ˌbərg 
: a large floating mass of ice detached from a glacier
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