the Arctic Circle

noun

: an imaginary line that goes around the Earth near the North Pole

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If the climate 165 miles above the Arctic Circle turned out to be colder than expected, visitors could hardly drop by a department store and pick up a sweater. Julie Lasky, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025 Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Getty Images North America The marble office building near Capitol Hill is a world away from Tom Atkinson's home above the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Michael Copley, NPR, 1 Apr. 2025 Mikkelsen lives on Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago inside the Arctic Circle. ArsTechnica, 1 Apr. 2025 This Inupiat town at 66 degrees north is on the Baldwin Peninsula in Kotzebue Sound, 26 miles above the Arctic Circle. Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the Arctic Circle

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“The Arctic Circle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Arctic%20Circle. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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