as in hole
a sunken area forming a separate space
a cavity in the lawn where a tree stump had been removed
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Recent Examples of cavity
Another stellar newborn is clearing a similar cavity at the bottom left of the Cir-MMS region.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The bill passed on April 29 in the middle of Miami-Dade’s own fight over fluoridation of tap water, which the county has been doing since the 1950s as a way to reduce cavities and other dental issues.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 May 2025
And a city in Canada recently voted to add fluoride back into the drinking water after seeing that local second-graders had significantly higher rates of cavities than those in a neighboring city that fluoridated its water.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 May 2025
There is no evidence that properly maintained levels of fluoride in drinking water provide anything but benefits through the reduction of dental cavities.
—Scott A. Rivkees, Time, 6 May 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The bill passed on April 29 in the middle of Miami-Dade’s own fight over fluoridation of tap water, which the county has been doing since the 1950s as a way to reduce cavities and other dental issues.
—Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 7 May 2025
And a city in Canada recently voted to add fluoride back into the drinking water after seeing that local second-graders had significantly higher rates of cavities than those in a neighboring city that fluoridated its water.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 7 May 2025
There is no evidence that properly maintained levels of fluoride in drinking water provide anything but benefits through the reduction of dental cavities.
—Scott A. Rivkees, Time, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavity
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For decades, conservationists successfully plugged that hole by arguing in court that the ESA’s prohibition of harm to individual species includes destroying a species’ habitat.—
Emma Marris,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2025
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Other cavity nesters such as woodpeckers will make holes in trees, and those can also be adopted by tree swallows, flickers, kestrels and chickadees.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
Noun
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The question now is, could the union’s commercials contracts, if ratified, make a dent on future negotiations?—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025
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But something as simple as stacking the bricks a different way could put a significant dent in that pollution, according to a new study of over 275 kilns published in Science by Maithel and his colleagues.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
18 May 2025
Noun
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Evidence could include jetty and mooring post remnants, ballast stones, boatbuilding pits, temporary shelters, and artifacts indicating local commerce.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
22 May 2025
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That dynamic pits the department’s higher-ups against its rank-and-file firefighters and EMS workers.—
Chris Sommerfeldt,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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Antonio Stradivari, for instance, carefully tinkered with the geometry of his violins—the relative concavity of the back and the front, the thickness of the wood—to produce his legendary results.—
Chris Almeida,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2024
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Fluted white marble columns sit on black granite pedestals, carrying the eye upward to where lines slide over, folds narrow, and concavities become convex.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
3 Aug. 2023
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“Cavity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavity. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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