the Arctic Circle

noun

: an imaginary line that goes around the Earth near the North Pole

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Rivet Joint operating out of the British air force base near Mildenhall in the east of England flew an 11-hour sortie that swept the borders of Belarus and Russia up to the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic Circle. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025 Brutally cold air from Siberia, near the Arctic Circle, will sink south over Canada late this week and rush into the northern US by the earliest hours of Saturday morning. Mary Gilbert, CNN, 15 Jan. 2025 Instead, Bundy was referring to the Arctic Circle and far-northern regions of the globe, and asking whether geographic unity and climate uniformity were reflected in the similarity of challenges to public policies. Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025 There is also the enormous bounty of precious resources believed to be buried under the ocean floor of the Arctic Circle, and on Greenland itself. Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for the Arctic Circle 

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“The Arctic Circle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Arctic%20Circle. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.

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