Thesaurus results for OCEANS

oceans

noun

plural of ocean

as in abysses

an immeasurable depth or space with a single bound from the top of the cliff, he propelled the hang glider into the ocean of air over the valley

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Recent Examples of oceans And then there were also newspapers declaring that having this near-instant communication across the oceans would basically usher in an era of world peace. — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026 At the same time, this super El Niño is occurring in a world in which the oceans are already record warm, adding heat on top of heat. — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 True polar wander would bring about an identifiable pattern in sea-level changes as the oceans reacted in response to changes in the mass distribution of the planet. — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Oct. 2026 Combined, the conditions are welcoming fish that are typically rare to these waters, like the bullet tuna, which typically swims in the Indian and Atlantic oceans or around Hawaii and the central Pacific. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 This suggests how the oceans are interconnected with life on Earth on more levels than one. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 In the northwest Pacific they are called typhoons and in the south Pacific and Indian oceans they are called cyclones or tropical cyclones. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 The oceans’ vastness can feel ominous, and though scientists have studied what lurks beneath, so much remains unknown. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026 This divergence reflects both short-term irregularities in how fast Earth rotates, and a very gradual, long-term slowdown of Earth’s rotation, caused primarily by the Moon’s gravitational pull on Earth’s oceans. — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for oceans

Noun

Jean-Pierre is an artifact of an age that looks recent on paper but feels prehistoric in practice—the age of pantsuits, the word ’empowerment,’ the musical Hamilton, the cheap therapeutic entreaties to ‘work on yourself’ and ‘lean in’ to various corporate abysses.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
On the other side of the country, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, a longtime reader favorite, is a warm alternative to sterile airport abysses.

— Hannah Towey, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Oct. 2024

Definition of abysses

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Entrepreneur Emma Grede attributed her ability to keep brands relevant to her complete assuredness in her intuition, which was honed in the expanses of her triumphs—and failures.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026
Released three years after the similarly freewheeling Nekkuja, the album bubbles over with interdimensional ambition and zigzagging ideas, anchored by her ability to command bewildering expanses of melody and form.

— Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026