excavations

noun

plural of excavation
as in caves

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  1. caves
  2. trenches
  3. ditches
  4. caverns
  5. burrows
  6. pits
  7. furrows
  8. cavities
Noun
  • Shot across the teeming city streets and the majestic underground caves of Ireland, Bucking Fastard features operatic imagery from the director’s longtime cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Decades later, the government was still buying surplus cheese and storing it in vast underground caves in Missouri, Wisconsin, and Kansas, warehouses cool enough to hold the cheese for years without spoiling.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of caves
Noun
  • After working for more than a decade in club music’s trenches, the brothers now aspired to be not merely DJs, but a dance-music act known for spectacular live performances.
    — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Now, stars broken in the reality trenches are crossing over into more traditional Hollywood offerings, with everyone from Netflix to A24 putting scripts into their hands.
    — Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of trenches
Noun
  • This untreated runoff makes its way through storm drains and ditches into our local streams and rivers and eventually, the ocean.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Both townships and counties had authority to tax land thus providing funds for roads and ditches.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 July 2026
Definition of ditches
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  • The opening installation unfolds in a cornucopia of mezzanines, double-height caverns, walkways, and arched windows that give on to the street.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 29 July 2026
  • Even if drawing it down to these levels doesn't collapse the salt caverns, flows would slow considerably once the caves close in on empty.
    — Justin Zacks, CNBC, 23 July 2026
Definition of caverns
Noun
  • Research suggests these insects, found in northeastern Illinois and other Midwestern states, require burrows created by Great Plains mudbugs and water flowing over the mineral dolomite, Garrison said.
    — Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Around the dozens of containers that make Toolik the US’s largest research station in the Arctic, musk ox and caribou graze on dwarf birches and fragrant labrador tea, while Arctic ground squirrels pop out of their burrows to survey the tundra.
    — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Definition of burrows
Noun
  • The longtime festival favorite pits chefs against one another for both Judges' Choice and People's Choice honors.
    — Amber Love Bond, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • For dessert, the move is to head outdoors for s'mores by the fire pits, which are some of the best seats in the house.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of pits
Noun
  • In fossils, tooth marks often look like punctures or furrows.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
  • In furrows of pain, The good now germinates.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
Definition of furrows
Noun
  • But skipping the rinse may help fluoride stay on your teeth longer, giving your toothpaste more time to protect your enamel and lower your risk of cavities.
    — MD Published, Verywell Health, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Leaning that increases year after year, mushrooms or fungal corks growing at the base of your tree, soft soil around the trunk, and bark damage or cavities at the base can all be symptoms of root damage.
    — Molly Burford, Southern Living, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of cavities
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