as in cavern
a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface
Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is actually a series of large chambers on five levels
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Recent Examples of cave
Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026
Littlewoods lets children up to age 4 burn some energy by climbing a treehouse and exploring a bear cave.
—Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
Peter Baugh, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
On Thursday, Amodei signaled the company wouldn’t cave to the Department of Defense’s demands to loosen safety restrictions on its AI models.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
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Noun
An article in 1900 describes a fisherman finding two skeletons in a cave along the banks of Trinity’s West Fork, about 10 to 12 miles west of downtown.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026
Littlewoods lets children up to age 4 burn some energy by climbing a treehouse and exploring a bear cave.
—Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
Will any of the interested parties cave and meet Drury’s demands before the clock winds down?
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
On Thursday, Amodei signaled the company wouldn’t cave to the Department of Defense’s demands to loosen safety restrictions on its AI models.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cave
Noun
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Decades of static storage lead to the unavoidable accumulation of heavy waxes, dense inorganic sediments, and highly corrosive hydrogen sulfide produced by sulfate-reducing bacteria — turning the bottom of the cavern into a chemical nightmare.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Few caverns possess the same cache of fossils as Bender’s Cave, however.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Woods was arrested and charged with DUI, property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test, Budensiek said.—
Melissa Gaffney,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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This is typically the final stage of testing before a drug can be submitted for regulatory approval.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Its attractions include a mossy, cool grotto of ferns as well as vast views of Ashdown Forest and distant towns.—
Amy Waldman,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Mar. 2026
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As the 14-year-old child of a poor family in 1858, Saint Bernadette experienced numerous apparitions of a young woman in a cave or grotto, seemingly the Virgin Mary, asking for a chapel to be built on the site.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned Trump in the run-up to the invasion, but the president dismissed the warning, believing that Iran would capitulate instead.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Yet the air campaign, costing billions of dollars, has not forced Iran to capitulate and loosen its grip on the strait.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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Maybe she is beset by need to copulate, by the desire of the eggs inside her for their own plot of land.—
María Ospina,
The Dial,
31 Mar. 2026
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Droughts, freezes and hurricanes have beset farmers in the United States.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
27 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The case is separate from a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court, where a jury found Musk liable on March 20 for trying to drive the takeover price down by questioning whether Twitter was overrun by fake and spam accounts, or bots.—
Reuters,
Oklahoman,
1 Apr. 2026
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Last season’s 4-8 team wore down during the second half during losses at LSU, Miami and Texas A&M, was overrun at home by Tennessee and couldn’t hold off USF during a defeat that effectively sealed former head coach Billy Napier’s fate.—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Cave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cave. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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