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as in subtropical
being near the equator
wanted to escape winter and visit some tropical location where freezing to death would not be a possibility
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as in metaphorical
expressing one thing in terms normally used for another
an author given to high-flown tropical phrasings and convoluted symbology
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Recent Examples of tropical
Not so for the final weeks, when tropical development typically shifts closer to the United States, DaSilva said.
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John Bacon, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
This viral infection is spread by mosquitoes, mainly in tropical regions.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 24 Oct. 2024
Once widespread across Australia’s tropical and subtropical waters, these predators are now critically endangered, with sightings becoming increasingly rare.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Ube grows best in warm, tropical, and subtropical regions where the summers are wet.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 22 Oct. 2024
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John Bacon, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
This viral infection is spread by mosquitoes, mainly in tropical regions.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 24 Oct. 2024
Once widespread across Australia’s tropical and subtropical waters, these predators are now critically endangered, with sightings becoming increasingly rare.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Ube grows best in warm, tropical, and subtropical regions where the summers are wet.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tropical
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Regardless of tropical or subtropical development in the Gulf of Mexico, locally heavy rains could occur over portions of Mexico during the next few days and over portions of the Florida Peninsula late this weekend into next week, the NHC said in their advisory.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 4 Oct. 2024
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The disease is most prevalent in tropical and subtropical climates.Devika Rao, theweek, 31 Oct. 2024
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Physical evidence that ice sheets covered the interior of continents in warm equatorial regions had eluded scientists – until now.Liam Courtney-Davies, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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Zoom in: The weather outlook is due in part to a developing La Niña — an area of cold ocean waters near the equatorial Pacific — which typically pushes storms farther to the north.Kale Williams, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
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Oz treats both literal and figurative families as either responsibilities to be resented or props to be arranged for his benefit; The Penguin ends with Oz, his goal finally in sight, re-creating those cycles of violence and outdoing his own brutality.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
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Over the next near-century, researchers attributed around 430 figurative geoglyphs to the Nazca people.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Sep. 2024
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But for his own figural edification, Degas made lots of small sculptures, mostly of dancers, horses and bathers, subjects that also populated his paintings.Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
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Higgins and her colleagues, though, are concentrating on figural graffiti, which range from humans and animals (often representing a god) to game boards likely carved by Isis’ priests for diversion during their off hours.Amy Crawford, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
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These subtle symbolic and rhetorical shifts suggest that North Korea is dissatisfied with China.Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
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Observers are invited in by the U.S., something of both practical and symbolic importance.Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Tropical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tropical. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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