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Seal was the first to be sent back to the ice floe, and half the panel got his identity right: Robin Thicke and Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg both figured out the adorable costume was hiding The Goonies actor Corey Feldman.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 2 May 2024
On April 29, 1909, the ship was following the Morrell, through a thick ice floe.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2024
Several miles away other service members and researchers have built Camp Whale, a clutch of winterized tents and a small command center on a large ice floe that itself moves about a half mile an hour on the frozen ocean.
—Kenny Holston, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
An ice floe is a floating sheet of ice that breaks away from a larger ice formation.
—Alex Sundby, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
Each year anglers in the upper Midwest are rescued from ice floes that get blown into open water by high winds.
—Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
In 2020, 536 ice fisherman were rescued from an ice floe that broke away from the shore near Mordvinov Bay on Sakhalin, according to Russian state media RIA Novosti.
—Josh Pennington, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
Thirty feet of open water separated the ice floe from the shore, according to the sheriff's press release.
—Riley Hoffman, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
Emergency services said a 50-meter ice floe broke off near the village of Starodubskoye in the Sea of Okhotsk between Russia and Japan, stranding more than 80 fisherman a kilometer offshore.
—Josh Pennington, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above
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“Ice floe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20floe. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
ice floe
noun
: a flat free mass of floating sea ice
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