CHUCKHOLE Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

chuckhole

noun

Definition of chuckhole

as in water hole

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Recent Examples of chuckhole Warren and Lang — and sometimes up to five of their friends — spend their spare time fixing some of the worst chuckholes on side streets. — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2018

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Noun

One of the reasons the water hole has been so favored is because radio waves in this frequency range are not absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2026
There were about 50 of them and they were strung out over a wide, grassy plain near a water hole.

— Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 8 July 2026

Definition of water hole

Noun

The impact created the 120-mile-wide (190 km) Chicxulub crater in a cataclysmic event that drove mass extinctions across the planet, eliminating nearly three-quarters of the species that thrived on Earth until that time.

— Micah Hanks, Space.com, 12 Oct. 2026
The perception of cheating would likely cause trust in politics to crater even further.

— Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

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The system generates high-power electromagnetic waves that can ablate, or vaporize, rock as a borehole advances.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026
These systems are not new; lots of buildings use this borehole technology, notably in Europe and Canada, though some use it just to drain heat into the ground without actively trying to pull it back later on.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 13 Aug. 2026

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Those risks can include operating heavy mowing equipment and having to navigate roadside ditches.

— Susan DeGrane, Chicago Tribune, 8 Oct. 2026
Access holders say the fence has created significant problems, including trapping wildlife and diverting water from community irrigation ditches.

— Anna Alejo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026

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The original plan called for a more complex full-size puppet, but the schedule changed dramatically after Nolan and production designer Ruth De Jong found a real cave in Greece.

— Callum McLennan, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
There are cellars with vintages dating back to the 1880s and old wine caves covered in mildew and mold, which were a dream for a wine lover like me.

— Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2026

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For her performance, Narges received a nomination for Best Actress at the BIFAs, a well as the Breakthrough Actress award at the New York International Film Festival.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Continue reading … PARADISE LOST — Surf trip that ended with 3 bodies in a well leads to murder convictions in Mexico.

— , FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of well

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The clothes performed a parallel operation on familiar forms, pulling apart bikers, trenches, tweed jackets, corsetry, and punk hardware before rebuilding them into funky new forms of feminine armor.

— Vogue, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026
Direct water toward the bed by installing a gutter extension, creating a downhill slope, digging a trench or connecting a PVC pipe to a distant gutter and running it underground to the rain garden.

— ABC News, ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026

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