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as in bay
a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline we dipped our feet in the warm waters of the gulf

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as in vortex
water moving rapidly in a circle with a hollow in the center the doomed ship was sucked into the gulf and consigned to Davy Jones's locker

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as in to flood
to cover with a flood with the administration gulfed by so many real problems, it's absurd for the president to concern himself with this nonissue

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Noun
After all, the two teams have the largest gulf in terms of Transfermarkt squad value among all teams at the tournament. Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025 These efforts helped narrow the gulf between the performance of U.S. and Chinese AI tools on most popular benchmarks to single-digit percentages by the end of 2024. Sebastian Elbaum, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2025
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So many gulfs separate us now: geographical, anatomical, psychological. Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018 Read More: Gulf Spat Escalates as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Media Attack Qatar Institutional and individual investors from the GCC sold 34.6 million riyals ($9.5 million) of Qatari stocks on Monday, the most in a single trading session since March 21. Glen Carey, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017 See All Example Sentences for gulf
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Noun
  • As the volunteers were watching the whale, it was joined by a pod of dolphins in the bay, the organization said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
  • The bay historically was not visited by this cetacean species.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
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  • All that being said, the grimmest predictions as to how Iran might react to the bombings from Israel and the U.S. — and how the region could spiral ever closer to the abyss — now look overblown.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 23 June 2025
  • Legislators can schedule a summer session or wait until the fall veto session to deal with the fiscal abyss.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • One of its most scenic routes cuts through a dramatic river canyon.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2025
  • Unlike that other world-famous attraction, this majestic canyon system inside the Daniel Boone National Forest is just a two-hour drive from Louisville.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
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  • The larger the gaps, the faster the sucker will lose its grip.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 June 2025
  • The gap between the two has never been as narrow – at least where security is concerned.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Highly nonlinear filaments, vortices and eddies start forming patterns and structured networks.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
  • The opposite of a heat dome is the polar vortex, when cold Arctic air plunges southward and stalls.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 June 2025
Verb
  • But two of the endeavor’s most compelling aspects are difficult to convey in any individual image, no matter how spectacular: the sheer amount of data Rubin will produce and the speed with which those data will flood into astronomers’ work.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 1 July 2025
  • Streets became rivers that coursed down Asheville’s sloped streets, taking down trees and flooding everything in their path.
    Sofia Perez, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • So is avoiding areas like estuaries, which are natural fish nurseries, and any area that has a lot of fish or bird life or a lot of seals or sea lions.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
  • What was once a pristine estuary has become a hotspot for pollution, habitat loss, and stress.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • He’s taught at FAU for about 20 years and goes out for regular jaunts in the ocean to tag sharks with transmitters so investigators can track their behavior.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2025
  • Over 90 million Americans swim in pools, lakes and oceans every year, and one-third of that group swims regularly for fitness.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025

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“Gulf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gulf. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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