Bermuda Triangle

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the Bermuda Triangle

  1. An area of the Atlantic Ocean where many ships and planes have disappeared under allegedly mysterious circumstances.
    Synonyms: Devil's Triangle, Triangle (informal)
    • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 187:
      According to the ‘business as usual’ school of modern historians, the millennial preoccupations of Glaber and Wulfstan hold no more significance than the jeremiads of the gullible and doom-laden who agonise in every society - the medieval equivalents of believers in UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, and the X files.

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Bermuda Triangle (plural Bermuda Triangles)

  1. (figuratively, by extension) A confusing, chaotic place or situation where objects mysteriously disappear or things go wrong.
    The dryer is a Bermuda Triangle for socks.
    • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Mars Ruins Codex entry:
      The south polar region of Promethei Planum developed a Bermuda Triangle reputation. Satellites detected intermittent mass concentrations and magnetic field shifts. In 2148, prospectors working near Deseado Crater discovered an underground complex: a Prothean observation post. The odd phenomena were generated by the operation and discharge of a mass effect core, struggling to function despite fifty millennia of neglect.

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