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  berg

  noun

  iceberg.
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  Berg

  noun

  Alban 1885–1935, Austrian composer, noted for bringing expressive emotion to the twelve-tone technique.

berg

¹ American  

[burg] / bɜrg /

noun

Oceanography.

1. iceberg.

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Berg ² American  

[berg, berk, burg] / bɛrg, bɛrk, bɜrg /

noun

1. Alban 1885–1935, Austrian composer, noted for bringing expressive emotion to the twelve-tone technique.

2. Patricia Jane Patty, 1918–2006, U.S. golfer: a founding member of the LPGA.

3. Paul, 1926–2023, U.S. biochemist: shared Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1980.

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Berg ¹ British  

/ bɜːɡ, bɛrk /

noun

1. Alban ( Maria Johannes ) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs

2. Paul . born 1926, US molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer RNA (1956). Nobel prize for chemistry 1980

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berg ² British  

/ bɜːɡ /

noun

1. short for iceberg

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berg ³ British  

/ bɜːɡ /

noun

1. a South African word for mountain

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Etymology

Origin of berg

First recorded in 1815–25; by shortening

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berg Berg

After separating from the glacier, the berg moved down Petermann Fjord toward Nares Strait at an average speed of about 3 kilometers per day during its first week.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Recent close-up photographs from passing ships show the berg wasting at its edges.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024

“It is amazing to see this huge berg in person — it stretches as far as the eye can see.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

But that was before a mammoth berg started meandering northward from Antarctica.

From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

Horrified, the crew of Endurance watched as one large berg began plowing in slow motion toward their position.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Mr. Berg, unlike Messrs. Spielberg and Gibson, shines a light on the barbarism and racism of some U.S. troops and the staggering number of civilian casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Peter Berg directs a Netflix film starring Bill Skarsgård and Nicholas Galitzine about a football game played by Marines in the South Pacific on Dec. 24, 1944.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

“These systems don’t have to be conscious for this to matter for alignment or safety,” Berg told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

While Berg isn’t sure whether current AI systems have subjective experiences, he believes studying their internal states is critical for alignment, or training AI to match human rules and values.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

They reached the end of the hallway, where the round submarinelike door led back into the chamber below the Berg landing pad.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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