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- adjective
Permanently frozen .
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Examples
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ESPN never will admit it, but it must be frosted — make that permafrosted — that another giant has elbowed its way into its once-exclusive draft territory.
USATODAY.com - Aura around draft is blown way out of proportion 2006
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Can you provide some substantive evidence that there are no other ancient farms in currently permafrosted areas?
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At least one has been found that was permafrosted.
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In fact there is no way that Lee will ever admit to any permafrosted farm, because in doing so he would be admitting that there was a MWP, and a LIA.
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The fact is that the area obviously was farmable during the MWP, whereas until quite recently the farm was buried under permafrosted sand – presumably inoperable because of the permafrost, not the sand.
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The permafrosted ground was bored into with energy beams to a depth of 20 meters and metal uprights of a corresponding length were placed in the holes.
Plasma Monster Mahr, Kurt 1976
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Showing an admirable disregard for his personal safety as well as the instructions of police, Mr McGonigle fished the permafrosted pup from the pond.
Londonist 2010
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In tests in genuine greenhouses (which may of course not be good stand-ins for Siberia or the North Slope) the researchers found that warming things up failed to evince the expected, extra CO2 from a faux-polar but non-permafrosted soil biome.
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If the permafrost farm is discovered because of thawing, then it doesn’t count, because it’s no longer permafrosted.
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