How to Use atlas in a Sentence

atlas

noun
  • This is the first atlas of what a normal human body looks like in space.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 5 July 2024
  • Even an atlas isn’t sufficient to map the chaotic ebb and flow of this war.
    — Adam Hochschild, The Atlantic, 7 Oct. 2022
  • This atlas of the body, as known through the senses, tells a child where skin ends and the world begins.
    — Chip Colwell, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • His invention was born of a childhood rapt by the beauty of an atlas.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The atlas spans short missions, long missions, males and females.
    — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 5 July 2024
  • There is a paper on the advanced tech being used to build this complex atlas, too.
    — New Atlas, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Then Malley asked for an atlas that was sitting on the table, and for a pen.
    — Chris Heath, The Atlantic, 17 June 2022
  • The atlas also honed his ability to find countries on the map.
    — Allie Caren, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • The atlas, many of its pages weathered and torn, included a list of patrons and maps.
    — Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2 Nov. 2020
  • And that, ultimately, is the best way to think about a human atlas.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Effects of climate warming, such as the changes in sea ice, are detailed in the atlas.
    — Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News, 7 Aug. 2017
  • For the first time, scientists have built a detailed atlas of a zebrafish’s nerve cells.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Much like an atlas, each page of this project reveals something telling and different about the city at hand.
    — Dan Singer, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • One way to understand his art is as an atlas of the imagination.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • One objective is to prepare a three-dimensional atlas of both the near and far sides of the moon.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2019
  • The cell atlas aims to fill in a missing link between genes, diseases and treatment therapies.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Monthly sky maps take the place of a planisphere in this atlas, which covers both the northern and southern hemisphere.
    — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2019
  • The result is a remarkable atlas charting where New York has gone, and why.
    — Amy Rose Spiegel, New Republic, 27 July 2017
  • Before that time, no two atlases agreed as to the limits, and much confusion resulted.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 15 May 2026
  • By mission completion, this atlas will cover around one-third of the entire night sky over Earth.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Dozens of experts and volunteers compiled the atlas over the course of five years, Morris writes.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 24 June 2017
  • The clearest types in Sander’s atlas are the working men, often depicted from head to toe, or down to their knees.
    — Max Norman, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • For Ajay, 11, the answer to the conflict was evident in his atlas.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • An atlas of pathogens Five years ago, a study like this wasn't really possible, says Carlson.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The resulting paper described the cerebral cortex as an atlas of meaning.
    — Eric Boodman, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Listening to them back to back is like getting hit in the head by an atlas written by the Chamber of Commerce.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Her voice remains sure-footed across many registers, and the book, at its best, functions as an atlas for learning to explore the world on one’s own terms.
    — The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Whole human body GEMs can also serve as an atlas for the metabolics of complex diseases.
    — Blaise Manga Enuh, The Conversation, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Work on the atlas began in 2016, and its organisers hope to complete the effort by the end of this decade.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
  • There is now a dizzying number of ways to put neurons in buckets, often presented in colorful, complex brain cell atlases.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 29 Sep. 2025

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