the tropics
plural noun
: the part of the world that is near the equator where the weather is very warm
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Hurricanes are born in the tropics, above warm water.
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Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
In the tropics during Earth’s hottest epochs, such as spans when alligators lived near the poles 50 million years ago, temperatures inland that approach 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) would seem to have pushed up against the hard limits for life.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Furious, Apatow took a trip to Hawai‘i to wallow in the tropics, and by some cosmic turn of fate ran into Shandling near the hotel where Apatow was staying.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
There’s also a tropical storm circulating, as if the gangsters flew in from the tropics.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
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Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
In the tropics during Earth’s hottest epochs, such as spans when alligators lived near the poles 50 million years ago, temperatures inland that approach 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) would seem to have pushed up against the hard limits for life.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Furious, Apatow took a trip to Hawai‘i to wallow in the tropics, and by some cosmic turn of fate ran into Shandling near the hotel where Apatow was staying.
—Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
There’s also a tropical storm circulating, as if the gangsters flew in from the tropics.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for the tropics
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“The tropics.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20tropics. Accessed 26 Sep. 2025.
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