as in ocean
an immeasurable depth or space
looking down at the dark ocean from the ship's rail, the cruise passenger felt as though he was staring into an abyss
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Recent Examples of abyss
In four lines, the poetry soars and plummets, travels up into the cosmos and back down into the abyss.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
There is the abyss of self-doubt and insecurity on one hand, the desire to create something unique and universally admired on the other, and jealousy and envy in the middle.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But as anybody working as a music creator knows, creating the music is only the start in a series of dancing monkey chores to make sure my work doesn’t disappear into the abyss.
—Kay Hanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
With the death of our local paper, where will local citizens get the information needed to keep us from a dark abyss where lies become truth and truth becomes lies?
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
There is the abyss of self-doubt and insecurity on one hand, the desire to create something unique and universally admired on the other, and jealousy and envy in the middle.
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
But as anybody working as a music creator knows, creating the music is only the start in a series of dancing monkey chores to make sure my work doesn’t disappear into the abyss.
—Kay Hanley, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2025
With the death of our local paper, where will local citizens get the information needed to keep us from a dark abyss where lies become truth and truth becomes lies?
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abyss
Noun
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The two were then hit by a wave and pulled into the ocean by the tide, according to a transcript provided to ABC News from two Dominican Republic sources.—
Aicha El Hammar Castano,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2025
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Here is a sampling of where our readers find spiritual comfort, from poetry to gardening to gazing out into the ocean.—
Malaka Gharib,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2025
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On a series of party-line votes Thursday, the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee acted in advance of next week’s deadline to approve bills that expose a wide chasm between majority Democrats and minority Republicans over labor-management relations, mandates and regulations.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
21 Mar. 2025
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The last-minute reliance on SpaceX's Dragon capsule underscored the chasm between Musk's relative upstart company and Boeing, the 108-year-old aerospace giant that has been bedeviled by technical, safety and engineering issues for years.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
18 Mar. 2025
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Even if Putin were to agree to this interim détente, there remains a gulf between the positions of Russia and Ukraine, which wants security guarantees before signing a ceasefire with a giant neighbor that has violated past agreements.—
Alexander Smith,
NBC News,
12 Mar. 2025
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This is bad enough, but then there’s the wide gulf of sensibility that separates Rock and Martin; the latter’s effete irony just doesn’t gel with Rock’s political trenchancy.—
Bill Wyman,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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These wide expanses of dense maritime forest are largely left alone.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
11 Mar. 2025
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The extraordinary Lake Tahoe residence — nestled along a broad expanse of shoreline on 5.47 acres — has hit the market for $65 million.—
David Caraccio,
Sacramento Bee,
27 Feb. 2025
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Press your thumb lightly into the center of each ball to create an indention about 1/4-inch deep.—
Liv Dansky,
Southern Living,
12 Dec. 2024
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Users can also create and assign their own gestures instead, assigning — in Hyper’s example — a two-finger deep click to enter presentation mode in PowerPoint.—
Sheena Vasani,
The Verge,
5 Jan. 2025
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“Abyss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abyss. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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