cwms

plural of cwm, chiefly British

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Noun
  • Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • How To Keep Stink Bugs Out Stink bugs can squeeze into tight spaces between siding, crawl into cracks and crevices in window frames, and enter through open doors, windows, and vents.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The invasive beetles from Asia would burrow through bark, the females laying eggs in crevices.
    Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His cowboys keep their saddles in the back of their sedans.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Along the way, the train passes through dense forests and narrow river canyons.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The fire reached about 40 acres in a spot where brushy canyons, ridges and thick palm tree groves meet with hilltop communities.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This mountainous region is known for its lush forests, lakes and valleys – and for being a hotspot for this year’s deadly bear attacks in Japan.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • With its valleys, table-top plateaus, waterfalls, and limestone caves, it’s often compared to Yosemite or Zion.
    Aaron Randolph, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Rather uniquely, this area is overshadowed by gorges and massive mountains, which block out city lights.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Apart from the gorges and cliffs, the area features beautiful waterfalls and rock shelters.
    Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ice plains can prompt fast retreat because as the glacier thins, the ice starts to rise up and water pushes underneath into its crevasses, exerting pressure and causing large slabs to break off — in a process called calving.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
  • 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
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
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“Cwms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cwms. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.

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