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    Specimens associated with Morrison formation strata in Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma.  (source)
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    I stopped for a long time to let my nerves settle, then leaned back from my tools and stared up at the face above, searching for a hint of solid ice, for some variation in the underlying rock strata, for anything that would allow passage over the frosted slabs.  (source)
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    For another thing, he didn't have any idea how to "name three sedimentary strata you observe" or "describe two examples of erosion."  (source)
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    And he remembered sunrise here on Arrakis—colored strata of the Shield Wall mellowed by dust haze.  (source)
    strata = layers
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    The entire operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one's yard. The woman on the bed was no more than a hard stratum of marble they had reached.  (source)
    stratum = layer
    editor's notes: Strata, the plural form of this word is used much more commonly than the singular form. Many Latin words that end in "um" are made plural by changing the "um" to "a"--such as stratum to strata, bacterium to bacteria, and millennium to millennia. In modern writing, changing the "um" to "ums" is also accepted for many Latin words ending in um, but not for any of those listed above.
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    They were men from all across the social strata who had been trained by American World War II and Korea veterans—and those hardened U.S. vets were impressed by what they saw.  (source)
    strata = classes or groups
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    His tales "The Masque of the Red Death" (1842) and "The Fall of the House of Usher" (1839) both deal with a stratum of society most of us only get to read about: the nobility.  (source)
    stratum = social class
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    Countless times the strata bad creaked and shifted, as the unimaginable weight of water disturbed their precarious equilibrium.  (source)
    strata = layers
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    They are members of a social stratum which includes welfare mothers, housing project residents, immigrant families, the homeless and unemployed.  (source)
    stratum = class
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    One circle was her husband's government official set, consisting of his colleagues and subordinates, brought together in the most various and capricious manner, and belonging to different social strata.  (source)
    strata = classes or groups
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    But this was concrete evidence; it was a fragment of the abolished past, like a fossil bone which turns up in the wrong stratum and destroys a geological theory.  (source)
    stratum = layer
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    It is a picturesque expanse, framed in lofty crags in large strata, encrusted with white salt—a superb sheet of water, which was formerly of larger extent than now, its shores having encroached with the lapse of time, and thus at once reduced its breadth and increased its depth.  (source)
    strata = layers
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    I don't mean that he had traded on his phantom millions, but he had deliberately given Daisy a sense of security; he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself — that he was fully able to take care of her.  (source)
    stratum = class of society
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