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Examples of ice age in a Sentence
changes that occurred during the last ice age
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Soil samples show such blooms have been part of the lake since the last ice age 10,000 years ago.
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Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 2 June 2024
The Pleistocene’s serial ice ages remade entire landscapes, created continental shifts in biogeography, dramatically changed sea level and spawned serial extinctions.
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Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
Ever wanted to experience life as an ice age animal?
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2024
Or, maybe Neanderthals were less adaptable to environmental or climatic changes than modern humans were, and the start of the last ice age spurred their decline.
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Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1855, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Ice age.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20age. Accessed 18 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice age
noun1
: a time of widespread glaciation
2
capitalized I&A
: the most recent such period in the earth's past
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