Atlases
- plural of Atlas.
- plural of atlas.
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Even the more modest buildings have distinctive flourishes, and some are simply stand-in-the-street-and-stare astonishing, like the House of Scientists, a neo-Baroque extravaganza with a huge wooden entryway flanked by twin Atlases holding up the balcony.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2022
"Rather attractive... with Atlases supporting enormous mock columns and a rather luxurious intimacy about the atmosphere".
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2022
Could Lou or one of the other Atlases take his title?
From The Guardian ● Nov. 6, 2015
The first generations of U.S. missile sites - the Atlases and Titans - once decommissioned were often left uncovered and sold for civilian use, some stripped for scrap metal, some converted into subterranean homes.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2015
They are the Atlases upon whose broad and mighty shoulders rests the grand fabric of civilization; they are the men who have broken, and are still breaking, the chains of superstition.
From Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Ingersoll, Robert Green
"Most large atlases like this require large consortia with dozens of laboratories but our method is far more efficient than other approaches."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026
His meticulous survey takes in dozens of sources, from the obscure to the well-known: pamphlets to legal codes, sermons to atlases, maps, travel narratives, even journals kept by ships’ captains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
It has produced draft atlases of the brain and lung and researchers are working on the kidney, liver and heart.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
The Nazi atlases “were like documents of death. The atlases that Shiv is creating are really living, interactive tools to support life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
Hal arrives with an overstuffed portfolio of maps torn from atlases and pilfered from AAA.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
