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
Tooth decay goes beyond a simple cavity that needs to be filled.
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Erika Edwards, NBC news, 30 May 2025
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
Thanks to fluoridated water, childhood and adult cavities have been reduced by about 25%.
—Samantha Korn, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Each of those frequencies creates its own quantum resonator in the same cavity, with its own set of modes.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
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Erika Edwards, NBC news, 30 May 2025
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
Thanks to fluoridated water, childhood and adult cavities have been reduced by about 25%.
—Samantha Korn, Sun Sentinel, 24 June 2025
Each of those frequencies creates its own quantum resonator in the same cavity, with its own set of modes.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavity
Noun
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Now that hole is being filled with full service, amenitized buildings and a public park along the two mile canal.—
Shimon Shkury,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Fuller was then released in February, and the Dolphins still have a major hole for starting-caliber cornerbacks ahead of nickel Kader Kohou after the draft.—
David Furones,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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Three housing complexes in Hamilton County will be under construction this year to tap a small dent in the area’s stubborn shortage of affordable housing.—
John Tuohy,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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That’s more than 600 times the cost of an average American wedding—which the wedding site The Knot puts at $33,000—but won’t exactly make a dent in Bezos’ estimated $237 billion fortune.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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Resorts here celebrate nature at every turn, from their activities (whitewater rafting, snowmobiling) to their designs (outdoor fire pits, floor-to-ceiling windows).—
Sarah Bruning,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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Each accommodation features a kitchen or kitchenette, a private terrace or patio, outdoor hot tub, indoor hand hammered copper tub, BBQ grill, pizza oven, and fire pit.—
Katie Kelly Bell,
Forbes.com,
7 July 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 Jul. 2025.
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