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Muktita Suhartono Nyimas Laula, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
During their surveys, researchers encountered several of these green snakes lurking in a cave, the study said.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2024
Or, Lee suggested, a mission could venture west to a volcanic region called the Tharsis plateau, where warm caves may harbor living microbes.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
Alastair Miller; Maurice Rougemont / Getty Images file In Camembert’s early days, the fungi existed naturally in the air in the damp caves where it was aged, said Emily Monaco, an American writer and cheese connoisseur who lives in Paris.
—Josh Lederman, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2024
The Nickajack cave tour group departed from the Macedonia Road boat ramp earlier Monday evening, paddling across the lake to the Nickajack cave, the TWRA said in a news release.
—Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
The developers said Arrakis isn’t all a barren wasteland, and players can find plants and other crafting material in places such as caves or rock formations.
—Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
By safeguarding the caves and canopies and other habitats where animals congregate — or introducing buffers around those spots to further minimize human disturbance — that reduces stress considerably too.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
Quarantine by Jim Crace This 1997 novel follows Jesus during his 40-day ascetic retreat to a desert cave.
—Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2024
Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 Apr. 2024
The number of adults sentenced to more than ten years in prison more than doubled—until the system caved in, overrun by violence, self-harm, drug use, and staff shortages.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
Inadvertently, the state placed two groups, distressed farmers and legacy growers, in the same room, while both of them were caving under financial pressure.
—Wesley Parnell, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2024
Debris from the partial fall littered on the sidewalk immediately following the roof caving in.
—Stephanie Gallman Jordan, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
In the visual, Em emerges from the curtains and walks through the chaotic office scene with papers flying around him and the walls nearly caving in.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2024
But the Republicans may finally be caving to intense pressure to side with democratic Ukraine over authoritarian Russia.
—David Axe, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
By this point, the chest compressions may have caved in the patient’s sternum, his ribs shattered.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology, are over.
—Staff Report, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Noun
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin cava, noun derivative from feminine of cavus "hollow, concave" — more at hole entry 1
Verb (1)
Middle English caven, in part derivative of cave cave entry 1, in part borrowed from Latin cavāre "to hollow out" — more at excavate
Verb (2)
probably alteration of calve
Noun
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (1)
15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
Verb (2)
1513, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1
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“Cave.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cave. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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