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noun

as in dump
a place of great vice and corruption was able to rise above the sink that was his birthplace

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Recent Examples of sink
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Ready to sink your teeth into something special this season? Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2025 Yields have been mostly sinking as expectations built on Wall Street that the Fed will resume cutting rates soon. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025 This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland and other Eastern Bloc counties slaughtered innocents, seized property and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty. Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 12 Sep. 2025 The day the tsunami struck, Great Nicobar’s southern tip sank by around 15 feet, slipping into the ocean. M. Rajshekhar, Time, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sink
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sink
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  • In San Francisco, a development called Hunters View built in 1956 to provide temporary workforce housing was still inhabited and badly deteriorating by the early 2000s.
    Jeffrey Steele, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But the relations have deteriorated significantly since the start of the war in Gaza, with Israeli officials voicing growing anger at Qatar, accusing the government of harboring Hamas and not putting enough pressure on it to agree to a ceasefire.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • Stardust Racers, the sinewy roller coaster that towers over Epic Universe, shoots bodies through the sky at more than 60 miles an hour and plunges them toward the surface of the Earth from the height of a 10-story building.
    Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Girl Scouts of the USA is rolling out a new cookie flavor next year, hoping to sweeten sales after a rocky stretch marked by higher prices, plunging demand and nearly $3 million in operating losses.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • This cycle of reactionary leadership not only stifles innovation but also erodes trust and morale within organizations.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Vrabel, as previously mentioned, has stifled Tagovailoa in the past.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • But before long his hearing begins to disappear, leading him down a panicked trail of denial, anger and desperation.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Normally that motion disappears without a trace, but a growing field of research aims to capture it and turn it into electricity for sensors, wearable devices and other small electronics.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
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  • His team accused Whatley of distorting the facts to cover for his support of federal policies that reduced funding for local police.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Valentino has been streamlining its wholesale channel, reduced by about 20 percent in 2024, a strategy that continued in 2025 and that is expected to impact its year-end performance.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • And Sacks, a PayPal Mafia member and veteran Silicon Valley investor, is just the sort of titan of industry this town routinely devours and humiliates — from Rex Tillerson to, well, Elon Musk.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And whether the Carolina Panthers are just stuck in an endless loop of embarrassment, one that alternately humiliates and enrages their fans.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • New residential property prices fell year-on-year during August in 65 out of 70 cities surveyed by the NBS, data also showed.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Penske’s complaint argues that practice isn’t a fair exchange and has caused significant financial harm, with the company’s affiliate revenue falling by more than a third (as a result of Google’s AI Overviews co-opting traffic that might have otherwise gone to Penske outlets).
    Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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  • After a pause, the composition takes on a searching quality, as the melody travels from one instrument to the next, including a compelling viola solo performed by principal viola Maiya Papach, eventually fading out to nothing, leaving the audience suspended in uneasy quiet.
    Sheila Regan, Twin Cities, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The long-standing expectation was that these resonance signals would fade and become negligible as the momentum transfer increased.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025

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“Sink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sink. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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