as in concave
curved inward
that indented area of the mountainside is prone to avalanches
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Recent Examples of indented
Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
Henrot positions it such that its indented form emphasizes the dark thicket of his pubic hair au naturel.
—Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for indented
Adjective
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In particular, the concave deck feels a lot like a skateboard and allows for better board feel and control—enabling Payne to do actual kick-flips on the wave.—
Rob Reed,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The bell and diaphragm devices have a wide, flat side for high frequencies and a smaller, concave side for low frequencies.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The past nine months have shown hollow threats – the Kremlin’s, and Trump’s - are quickly exposed.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
14 Oct. 2025
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This wasp builds tan paper nests containing several hundred workers in hollow trees, walls, and attics.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
13 Oct. 2025
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Here, stainless steel tanks are arranged in a circular pattern around a central wooden barrel-aging chamber, inspired by ancient Tokaj cellars that were carved into volcanic rock.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Oct. 2025
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The statues, which were carved and placed on the South Pacific's Easter Island between the 12th and 17th centuries, have puzzled travelers since the first European contact was made there in 1722.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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Burnett’s stage was designed so that the audience was seated below the eye level of the performers, in a sunken pit, rather than above them, on risers.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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After a sacrifice bunt and Sears’ eighth strikeout — one shy of a season high — the 29-year-old left-hander grooved a middle-in sweeper for Blaine Crim to yank out to left, some 439 feet from the plate.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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With its signature grooved aluminum shell, Rimowa’s spinners are both a fashion statement and a piece of travel engineering.—
Julie Loffredi,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Matthiessen was born in 1927 to a pair of well-off, chronically depressed New Yorkers, people who were more likely to pour a stiff drink or take to their beds than to talk openly about their feelings.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Roberts plays an unhappy American in Venice who is wooed by depressed, divorced, and done-with-love Allen in a variety of vaguely dishonest ways.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
10 Oct. 2025
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Working on these inward-looking songs has allowed Teasdale and Chambers to feel less hemmed in by their origin story, one that was drawn early on by the press and then chiseled in stone.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2025
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Vincent Kompany and his staff have chiselled a perfect role for him, with Diaz contributing not only on an individual basis, but in a way that really accentuates Bayern’s other attacking virtues.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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The pillbox and sculpted brim styles — especially as seen at Dior — bring such a sense of presence and poise to any ensemble.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
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So far this year, artists have painted murals that include two of the city's basketball icons and sculpted a shining celebration of water's life-giving properties.—
Domenica Bongiovanni,
IndyStar,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Indented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/indented. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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