crevasses

plural of crevasse

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crevasses
Noun
  • Remove the cushions and vacuum both sides and the crevices where the back and sides join.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Pests can make their way into these small crevices easily, so keeping your appliances clean and free of food will prevent bugs from feasting in your kitchen.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Israel's devastating attack on Gaza, which has killed more than 62,000 Palestinians, including over 18,000 children, is exposing deep ideological fissures on the American Right.
    Faisal Kutty, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Vegetation also can conceal deep fissures and cracks.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Traders will be hoping that an end to the Russia-Ukraine war — a conflict which began in 2022 and which has shaken the global economy, disrupting trade and supply chains, and creating geopolitical chasms between major economies in the West and East — could be nearer now than at any other time.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Its governance still attempts to treat Ohio State with a yearly athletic budget of over $250 million as equals to small schools in the BigSky conference like Idaho State with a budget of $15 million, despite vast chasms in budgets, facilities, and visibility.
    Jim Martin, Denver Post, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At the same time, the ravines have become junkyards, where home appliances, grocery carts, bald tires, grass clippings and autumn leaves have been dumped.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The tracks led north and east now, angling and twisting through the timber, across ravines and small draws, avoiding parks and passes, heading generally into the wind.
    Fred C. Mercer, Outdoor Life, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the powerful current carved out massive gorges and canyons, including the Grand Canyon of the Nujiang.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Captured in the canyons of Arizona, the image reveals how flickering light dances across textured stone, creating fleeting moments of beauty only found in the shadows.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Over time, the powerful current carved out massive gorges and canyons, including the Grand Canyon of the Nujiang.
    Lauren Liebhaber September 2, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The journey runs the entire length of Australia from south to north, covering 1,851 miles and traversing dramatic gorges and curious rock formations of the ancient mountains of the Flinders Ranges.
    Alesandra Dubin, AFAR Media, 25 Aug. 2025
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