How to Use climatic in a Sentence

climatic

adjective
  • Trees, of course, can’t get up and walk to their new climatic homes.
    Nathan Gilles, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Over time, wildlife has evolved and adapted to the climatic changes in their habitats.
    Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Because of climatic changes, there are many species of trees whose fruits are borne before the correct time of the year.
    Benki Pyãnko, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
  • It can be found as far north as Vincennes in climatic zone 6.
    Dick Crum, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Later in the piece, Hearne takes the climatic moments from that movement and slows them down even more.
    Mark Swed, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • But rapid rates of climatic change mean that trees likely can’t move northward at a pace that keeps up with their loss in the south.
    David J. Cooper, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The cod have surged here from the south amid climatic changes unfolding with stunning speed.
    Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Thus did climatic change set in motion the first of the South’s series of metamorphoses.
    Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
  • Then came the cruel climatic twist, just as the White House and Congress finally reached a deal.
    Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
  • Landy Hite, as Aeneas, dives face-first into her part of the climatic battle royale.
    Lee Williams, OregonLive.com, 9 July 2017
  • But this is not the first time the ancient species has confronted major climatic changes.
    Sarah Gibbens, Environment, 30 Nov. 2020
  • A climatic change that allowed the behemoths to binge-eat.
    Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • The trio lets their instruments do the talking at minute four, rocking out for the track’s climatic halfway mark.
    Mackenzie Cummings-Grady, Billboard, 31 May 2018
  • The back-and-forth created a climatic whiplash that drove a mass extinction.
    WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Don't miss Raja, a heart-pumping tube slide with a 37-foot drop as its climatic finish.
    Carly Caramanna, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
  • Whether these kinds of shifts will last in the long run, or how the ecosystems might evolve under more intense climatic changes, is a matter of debate.
    Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 26 Feb. 2020
  • That may be a hint of a potential climatic feedback loop, which could release even more methane as the world warms.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The sky above his sprawling greenhouses is gray, the air heavy, a climatic state called macaja in the Genoese dialect.
    Leslie Pariseau, Saveur, 18 Sep. 2017
  • The stunt car in question stood in for Dan Gurney’s vehicle during the movie’s climatic Le Mans scene.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2021
  • While weather changes from hour to hour and day to day, with some years warmer or wetter than others, the trends and changes that take place over decades and centuries are climatic ones.
    Roman Dial, Outside Online, 15 Sep. 2022
  • In the most anti-climatic win ever, one of the safe door cracks opens, and CT and Kaycee run to grab the giant, plastic diamond inside.
    Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The tree-ring record — a historic catalog used to track climatic and weather events — has traced the history contained in old-growth wood back to the year A.D. 328.
    Peter Fimrite, SFChronicle.com, 26 June 2018
  • On the climatic trench run that led to the destruction of the Death Star, Edlund relates that the model shop built a trench that was about two feet wide and two feet high, which was filmed on a 40-foot-long track.
    Carolyn Giardina, Variety, 4 May 2024
  • But the researchers say the climatic effect of the impact alone seems sufficient for a mass extinction.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 1 July 2020
  • The company breeds seed for all climatic zones, and for outdoor as well as indoor growing.
    Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Some described feeling powerless given the scale of the social and climatic forces aligned against them.
    Merrill Singer, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The Boltysh impact may no longer be guilty of helping to cause the extinction of dinosaurs, but its new, more precise age puts it around a time of much climatic upheaval.
    She En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2021
  • As global warming cranks up the heat and climatic events intensify, many plants may be unable to cope.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2018
  • His team also thinks the waves could influence the timing and location of major climatic events such as ice ages, by increasing the exposure of rocks that absorb carbon dioxide.
    Byhannah Richter, science.org, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Mechanisms of swarm formation Hybrid swarms may form due to any number of factors, from climatic changes that influence the ranges of the parent species to human introductions of invasive species.
    Richard Pallardy, Ars Technica, 30 July 2024

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