as in chasm
a deep, narrow opening or crack in an area of thick ice or rock
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Recent Examples of crevasse
This living history left Kehlmann aware of how moral crevasses, narrow and wide, can form.
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Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
But Nungesser argues a better option is to strengthen the Mississippi River's flow by filling crevasses along the river's edge that have widened over the years.
—Kati Weis, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
While youth programs across the country get kids into nature, MAC is unique: The curriculum provides teens with big-mountain skills like crevasse rescue and snow camping, and, more importantly, hands them the reins as often as possible.
—Zoe Gates, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2025
In this twisted section of ice and crevasses, crowds occur next to vertical sections.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 17 May 2025
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Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
But Nungesser argues a better option is to strengthen the Mississippi River's flow by filling crevasses along the river's edge that have widened over the years.
—Kati Weis, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025
While youth programs across the country get kids into nature, MAC is unique: The curriculum provides teens with big-mountain skills like crevasse rescue and snow camping, and, more importantly, hands them the reins as often as possible.
—Zoe Gates, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2025
In this twisted section of ice and crevasses, crowds occur next to vertical sections.
—Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 17 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevasse
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There’s a chasm which has been getting wider every year.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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The extraordinary view, which was more than 5,000 feet above the bottom of the chasm, attracted visitors from other parts of the world.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 July 2025
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The roomy dustbin didn’t need constant emptying, and the crevice tool came in clutch for picking up crumbs between couch cushions and from the tight corners of car seats.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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Aphonopelma Chiricahua: Named after the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona, this large, black-bodied species dwells in crevices and rocky burrows.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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These magma-spewing mounds are responsible for 80 percent of the country’s seismic activity, including glowing fissures that splinter the landscape for up to 2 miles.—
Robin Catalano,
Robb Report,
7 Aug. 2025
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The measures eventually passed after internal Democratic fissures led to enough representatives returning to form a quorum.—
Rachael Dziaba,
ABC News,
6 Aug. 2025
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Mike Birbiglia’s The Good Life, Marc Maron’s Panicked, Cameron Esposito’s Four Pills, and Bill Burr’s Drop Dead Years are all hours of comedy about reckoning with mortality, and each in their own way is a lovely, absurd, painful depiction of someone staring into an abyss and choosing to laugh.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
6 Aug. 2025
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Which is a reminder that inflation is a policy choice, not some long and painful hike back from the proverbial abyss.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
27 July 2025
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Doctors couldn't tell her how severe the cleft would be or any other complications that may be involved with Benji's diagnosis.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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Plowshare: an agricultural implement for turning soil, for gouging a cleft in the earth.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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But the armed groups that succeeded him still control huge swathes of the surrounding hills, where the Garcia ravine that claimed Sara Millerey weaves around dusty apartment blocks.—
Ladan Anoushfar,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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Most of Camp 25 happened to be spread along the bottom of a ravine.—
Charles Pellegrino,
Rolling Stone,
6 Aug. 2025
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The same button allows the driver to summon V-mode for canyon carving and track days.—
Mark Phelan,
Freep.com,
31 July 2025
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Excellent guide/driver combos take guests off-roading on geological Big 5 safari drives to see salt flats, geysers at 14,000 feet, canyons and dunes that rival Jordan and Utah, and a string of volcanoes that make this part of Chile one of the most active sites in the world.—
Laura Dannen Redman,
Robb Report,
28 July 2025
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However dogs that gorge on cicadas will find their exoskeletons difficult to digest, resulting in an upset stomach, abdominal pain, vomiting and bloody diarrhea.—
Chad Murphy,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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How to Get There: From the Canyon Mouth Day Use Parking Area lot at Little River Falls, take the Little Falls Trail for .75 miles down into the bottom of the gorge.—
Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
20 June 2025
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“Crevasse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevasse. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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