cwms

plural of cwm, chiefly British

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Noun
  • This invisible, climate-polluting gas can escape into the water through fissures in the sea floor, often revealing itself with a stream of bubbles weaving their way up to the ocean surface.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Johanon's remarks centered on the fissures in society.
    Detroit Free Press staff, Freep.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Scrub with the cloth or a toothbrush, getting into any folds and crevices.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Methane has been measured escaping from crevices in the seabed at a high rate as the region warms at unprecedented rates, according to a paper published in Nature Communications.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Nashville store is in the heart of Tennessee horse country and will offer equestrian riding gear, saddles and other products, but not western saddles.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2025
  • These states form a much more complicated landscape, one in which the shapes of tipping points no longer resemble the familiar saddles and cones.
    Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The drama continues to unfold in lower canyons into December.
    Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Nearby, visitors can explore waterfalls, hiking trails, dramatic coastal rock formations, redwoods, fern canyons and many more quiet nature and outdoor activities.
    Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Fellow Saturnian moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa — both thought to host oceans — are covered with a network of cracks and crevasses in their surface, signs that their volumes changed as ice melted into water.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Throughout the course, climbers can see the 2,303-foot-high Triumvirate Glacier, with all its moraines and otherworldly blue crevasses, as well as the Tordrillo Mountains, which include Mount Spurr, an active volcano that last erupted in 1992.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Though expert hikers can make the round trip in a day, many take up to three, granting extra time to float in swimming holes, scope out waterfalls, and take in the hanging valleys and lush forests pouring into the sea.
    Jacqueline Kehoe, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Jungfrau Region is situated in southwest Switzerland, in the Bernese Highlands, which is known for its glacial lakes, waterfalls, and stunning valleys.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Between 2004 and 2023, the researchers estimate that nearly 120,000 people were displaced as their homes collapsed into these expanding chasms.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Some feature suspension bridges that cross chasms or waterfalls, and others end with a zip line back to terra firma.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Apart from the gorges and cliffs, the area features beautiful waterfalls and rock shelters.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The Gates of Lodore trip, as it’s known, will cover 44 miles through three dramatic gorges—Lodore, Whirlpool, and Split Mountain—and two dozen mostly mild rapids in this remote, geologic wonderland along the Colorado-Utah border.
    John Briley, Outside, 28 Sep. 2025
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“Cwms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cwms. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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