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Atlases

  • plural
    of Atlas.
    atlas
    noun
    a bound collection of maps.
atlases
  • plural
    of atlas.
    atlas
    noun
    a bound collection of maps.

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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 earlier generation of nuclear missiles - the mere dozens of Titans and the Atlases - were massive, expensive to maintain, volatile because of their liquid fuel and in need of constant security, Heefner said.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 17, 2015

Atlases, charts, and books of travels, spoke of the name St. Paul belonging, here to the northern island, there to the southern.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

The researchers will release their brain atlases as open-source references and provide the multi-tier mapping approach as an out-of-the-box package.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025

They hold thousands of maps and atlases of everything from cave networks to mountain ranges to capital flows to the surface of the moon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 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

Other anatomical atlases exist, but these illustrations had especially fine details, including of the nerves extending beyond the brain and spiral cord.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

I knew from studying atlases as a kid that Cymru meant Wales.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

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