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
With such a condition, abdominal organs can move into the chest cavity, often causing difficulty breathing for newborns and high morbidity and mortality.
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Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
Solitary bees are well protected in their underground or cavity nest, but leaf litter may provide some insulation for their ground nests.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
For example, the most precise work is in a left lateral incisor, where the artisan’s cavity only penetrated the tooth’s enamel.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
The child had visited the office to have several cavities filled, according to the family’s attorney, Kirc Emerson.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
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Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 31 Aug. 2025
Solitary bees are well protected in their underground or cavity nest, but leaf litter may provide some insulation for their ground nests.
—Special To The Denver Post, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
For example, the most precise work is in a left lateral incisor, where the artisan’s cavity only penetrated the tooth’s enamel.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
The child had visited the office to have several cavities filled, according to the family’s attorney, Kirc Emerson.
—Deon J. Hampton, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavity
Noun
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As the Republican candidate stood on the fifth-hole putting green, a Secret Service agent was riding a golf cart in a security sweep of the sixth hole and noticed someone hiding behind a chain-link fence in the southeast corner of the course.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Untangle the roots and spread them out in their planting holes.—
Rita Pelczar,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Fill in any deeper scratches or dents with a wax wood repair kit to match.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
5 Sep. 2025
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This first emerged in Canada, where ongoing grassroots and lawmaker-led boycotts have made a notable dent in some American companies' bottom lines.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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More David Cannon/Getty Images The Walker Cup pits teams comprised of the top 10 male amateur players from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland against each other.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Sep. 2025
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Trimeresurus nujiang, also known as the Nujiang green pit-viper, is a new arboreal, or tree-dwelling, snake species known only from the high-altitude evergreen forests that border the canyon in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, according to the study.—
Lauren Liebhaber
September 2,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 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 12 Sep. 2025.
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