icehouse
Americannoun
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icehouses
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As ice locked up water, vast shallow seas dried out, triggering an "icehouse climate" and radically altering ocean chemistry.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 11, 2026
The musician, who would become synonymous with Key West, started leasing the old icehouse in the city’s historic seaport district in 1986.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
And as we well know from our present habit of turning an icehouse climate into a greenhouse one, an altered climate dramatically affects life on our planet.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2024
The second phase of whale evolution unfolded as the planet transformed into a so-called icehouse world.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2023
We each could hear the other’s breath in the silence of the icehouse.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
He walked the beat among the icehouses and lower-income neighborhoods of a mostly Black community, and never had a problem.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2023
Venturing away from her home turf, she portrayed icehouses built for fishermen on frozen lakes in northern Minnesota, overhead walkways in Minneapolis, and pedestrian-eye views of St. Louis, Chicago and New York’s Wall Street.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
Eat this: The upper Hudson Valley was home to many Italian immigrants who passed through Ellis Island and headed upriver to work in the brick factories and icehouses.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2021
The urban farmer within each of us can thrill to the smell of freshly sawn tree trunks, to cogs and pulleys, icehouses and watercourses.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019
Elsewhere, however, the ice was strong, for all the cutting for the big icehouses had been done long before near the Landing.
From Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret by Annie Roe Carr
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