cwm

chiefly British

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Recent Examples of cwm Now, just one remains, lodged into a cwm west of Pico Humboldt. The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cwm
Noun
  • Ditch the giant Hula-Hoop in Vegas Even though Fremont Street’s pedestrian mall resembles a circus, the Las Vegas City Council does not permit such cirque contraptions as unicycles or Hula-Hoops wider than 4 feet.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The Anchorage Daily News reported that the slide area is a mountain cirque in backcountry terrain that is only accessible by air.
    Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Plowshare: an agricultural implement for turning soil, for gouging a cleft in the earth.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • The group of four were scaling the Early Winters Spires, jagged peaks split by a cleft that is popular with climbers in the North Cascade Range, about 160 miles northeast of Seattle.
    CBS News, CBS News, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • On the ceiling of their room, there was a rather large water mark and an accompanying crack and fissure.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 July 2025
  • The standoff encapsulates many of Thailand’s long-running political fissures: Shinawatra’s family has dominated its politics for decades, but has faced opposition from its powerful military, courts, and groups tied to the monarchy.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • While icebergs and rocky shorelines dominate the Antarctic coastline that cruise ships navigate, the heart of the continent is another world, one of shimmering blue ice tunnels and crevasses, jagged mountain peaks, and vast moonscapes.
    Chloe Berge, Outside Online, 17 June 2025
  • This living history left Kehlmann aware of how moral crevasses, narrow and wide, can form.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • The French Alps Why: Conquering the storied HC (hors catégorie) climbs and cols of the French Alps provides the ultimate cycling bragging rights.
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 13 May 2025
  • After the days of hiking through dense foliage to reach the 9,900-foot Waddington-Combatant col, the climb to the summit felt straightforward by comparison.
    Corbin Reiff, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • One of its most scenic routes cuts through a dramatic river canyon.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2025
  • Unlike that other world-famous attraction, this majestic canyon system inside the Daniel Boone National Forest is just a two-hour drive from Louisville.
    Amanda Hancock, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • With four different brush heads this tool can tackle grout, tile and all of the dirty crevices in your bathroom.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 9 July 2025
  • Slither Release date: March 31, 2006 Cast: Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker Another weird and wacky tale from the front-end of Gunn's career, Slither is the tale of a small town turned alien parasite hive that seeps into every corner and crevice of the once-peaceful place.
    Grace Dean, Space.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • All that being said, the grimmest predictions as to how Iran might react to the bombings from Israel and the U.S. — and how the region could spiral ever closer to the abyss — now look overblown.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 23 June 2025
  • Legislators can schedule a summer session or wait until the fall veto session to deal with the fiscal abyss.
    Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025

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“Cwm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cwm. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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