as in sinks
a place of great vice and corruption
over the decades the once-respectable neighborhood had become an urban cesspool
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sinks
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But if carbon dioxide sources and sinks were mismatched by as little as 5% for 5 million years, the biosphere would be utterly destroyed in a runaway high-CO2 greenhouse.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025 -
What a poll found →Supreme Court approval rating sinks to a new low, poll finds.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Cesspools.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cesspools. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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