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Examples of ice age in a Sentence
changes that occurred during the last ice age
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The analysis is shedding light on how the extinct humans thrived in the ice age environment for more than 100,000 years.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 July 2024
Some 40 million years before the dinosaurs dominated Earth, a different sort of apex predator roamed the Gondwana supercontinent during the late Palaeozoic ice age: a massive, eight foot-long salamander-like creature with an enormous head and powerful fangs.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
More From The Post This tree survived the last ice age.
—Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Giant stem tetrapod was apex predator in Gondwanan late Palaeozoic ice age.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice age
noun1
: a time of widespread glaciation
2
capitalized I&A
: the most recent such period in the earth's past
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