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Recent Examples of icebreaker
Wagner said the goal of the club is to make new friends in a casual environment with books acting as the icebreaker.
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
One tried to use it as an icebreaker.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Aboard the icebreaker Araon, senior scientists set the research priorities.
—New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Sometime in the next week, another part of the team, working from the South Korean icebreaker RV Araon, aims to drop another cable, which a robot will traverse once a day, down to a rocky moraine in the Amundsen Sea.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
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Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2026
One tried to use it as an icebreaker.
—Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 16 Feb. 2026
Aboard the icebreaker Araon, senior scientists set the research priorities.
—New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
Sometime in the next week, another part of the team, working from the South Korean icebreaker RV Araon, aims to drop another cable, which a robot will traverse once a day, down to a rocky moraine in the Amundsen Sea.
—Christian Elliott, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for icebreaker
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The Nordic-inclined, open-kitchen Refectory hosts breakfast, lunch, and supper.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Apr. 2026
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Roasted potatoes and onions are just the side dish this classic supper needs.—
Lisa Cericola,
Southern Living,
23 Apr. 2026
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The largest piece of hardware for NASA’s Artemis III mission arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Monday after a trip by barge from its factory in New Orleans, Florida Today reports.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
1 May 2026
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The barge is now expected to go around the northern tip of Denmark via the strait of Skagerrak toward the North Sea.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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Green Tea Green tea is packed with plant compounds called catechins, which help reduce oxidative stress and inflammatory markers in the body, said Meena Malhotra, MD, ABOM, ABIM, a functional and integrative medicine physician and medical director at Heal n Cure.—
Stephanie Anderson Witmer,
Health,
6 May 2026
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The multi-course meal starts with an herbal tea made with vineyard plants and honey from the hotel’s hives.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 May 2026
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The Rays tacked on an insurance run in the eighth on an RBI triple by Simpson, arguably the fastest player in MLB who would have had an inside the park home run had Wilyer Abreu not ranged over to cut off his liner down the right-field line.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
8 May 2026
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The ship, small by cruise liner standards, travels to the Antarctic.—
Helen Branswell,
STAT,
7 May 2026
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In 2025, the chamber held its inaugural member celebration as a Friday afternoon member social at Nestldown.—
Nollyanne Delacruz,
Mercury News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Sure, Patience is still filming with a cell phone for Val’s socials, but Jane is nowhere to be seen.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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The country also retains significant tanker capacity — equivalent to roughly 37 very large crude carriers — both inside and outside the blockade.—
Anthony Di Paola,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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The tanker that is the NFL Draft isn’t about be turned around on the small matter of perspective.—
Jerry McDonald,
Mercury News,
1 May 2026
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The symposium on science and evidence is one of these events.—
Abrahm Lustgarten,
ProPublica,
2 May 2026
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Indonesia’s top foreign diplomat said the country will not pursue tolls on ships passing through the strait, seeking to calm concerns after its finance minister floated the idea at a symposium in Jakarta earlier this week.—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 Apr. 2026
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Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Icebreaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icebreaker. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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