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a deep, narrow opening or crack in an area of thick ice or rock
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Recent Examples of crevasse
With a parachute billowing behind him, Miura makes a couple of pizza turns on the sheer and horribly icy Lhotse Face before catching an edge and then tumbling several thousand feet to the bank of a crevasse.
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Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
There are no crevasses or technical features on its standard route, just a relatively simple rock scramble beneath the summit block.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
The snowboarder, who has not been identified at this time, slid down roughly 100 feet and landed inside a bergschrund, or crevasse in a mass of ice.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
While the team tried to pull him up to safety, his belt broke, and Bell went back down into the crevasse.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
There are no crevasses or technical features on its standard route, just a relatively simple rock scramble beneath the summit block.
—Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
The snowboarder, who has not been identified at this time, slid down roughly 100 feet and landed inside a bergschrund, or crevasse in a mass of ice.
—Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
While the team tried to pull him up to safety, his belt broke, and Bell went back down into the crevasse.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevasse
Noun
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The chasm is widening between NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit that funneled federal dollars to public media until Congress killed that funding earlier this year.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
27 Oct. 2025
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This chasm exposes the fragmentation that’s holding back European innovation.—
Jan Hammer,
Fortune,
18 Oct. 2025
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One solo roach sat inside a wall crevice.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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While working in his cave, Dill found a crevice leading to an upper level.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Oct. 2025
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The journalist Beth Macy, who in her previous books chronicled the widening fissures in American society by examining the opioid crisis and the aftereffects of globalization, grew up there.—
Alex Kotlowitz,
The Atlantic,
29 Oct. 2025
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Once enough cars have sped over these fissures, chunks begin breaking off to create those infamous potholes that pop tires and ruin shocks.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
29 Oct. 2025
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Sor Juana’s verses confirm that venturing into the dating pool is always like stepping into a dark abyss.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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This version of our doomed protagonist is introduced exiting a pond, with stones dropping from her dripping-wet dress — the abyss-adjacent qualities are already in full bloom.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
29 Oct. 2025
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Apparently growing out of the cleft between her breasts was a large mauve orchid.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 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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And at Wallow Hallow Woods, tucked across the ravines and slopes unscathed by fire, beech and maple trees still grow.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
29 Oct. 2025
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Gullies and ravines meant to bring water back into the system have been cleared before the storm to help prevent excess flooding, but rain continues to pour over the island.—
Matt Nighswander,
NBC news,
29 Oct. 2025
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Or consider something more adventurous, like looking for the ghost of John Wesley Powell deep in the belly of the canyon at Phantom Ranch.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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This isn’t your average hike; expect to climb, wade, swim, and scramble your way through powerful streams and natural waterfalls, all while surrounded by towering canyon walls.—
Essence,
Essence,
28 Oct. 2025
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Further down the gorge of TikTok depravity, there are things like TCC, or the True Crime Community, an online subculture that’s been tied to actual school shootings.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
24 Oct. 2025
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As sublime as countertop donuts and as nourishing as a rack of girlie magazines, Clerks is a terrific movie gorge.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Crevasse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crevasse. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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