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Bermuda Triangle

American  

noun

  1. the triangular area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and a point near Melbourne, Florida, in which a number of ships and aircraft are purported to have disappeared mysteriously.


Bermuda Triangle British  

noun

  1. an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Florida where ships and aeroplanes are alleged to have disappeared mysteriously

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Bermuda Triangle

First recorded in 1970–75

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The village of Broad Haven has since been described as the "Bermuda Triangle" of mysterious craft sightings and sightings of strange beings.

From BBC Sep. 26, 2023

We should be thankful Vaughn didn’t vaporize into thin air, given the Bermuda Triangle eeriness of this dis-harmonic convergence.*

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 30, 2023

The Bermuda Triangle is an area roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico.

From National Geographic May 9, 2023

The segment of Challenger was found in waters off Florida’s Space Coast, well northwest of the area popularly known as the Bermuda Triangle.

From Scientific American Nov. 11, 2022

This has not been found to agree with experience, unless that turns out to be the explanation for the people who are supposed to have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle!

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

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