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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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The Boston guards sank the Magic in Game 1, but Brown and Porziņģis did much of the scoring in Game 2 before Derrick White found his rhythm in the fourth quarter. The Athletic Nba Staff, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025 At the Battle of Midway, Douglas SBD Dauntless planes helped sink four Japanese aircraft carriers, according to the National WWII Museum. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Apr. 2025 In September 1856, the three-year-old, 171-foot long Steamboat Arabia, laden with over 200 tons of cargo bound for 16 frontier towns, struck a tree snag and quickly sank to the bottom of the Missouri River, just six miles west of Kansas City. Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2025 Kamikaze sank their first ship on Oct. 25, 1944, when a navy Zero pilot smashed into the USS St. Lo in the Philippine Sea while carrying a pair of 550-pound bombs. CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sink
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  • That volume is masking deteriorating demand from key sectors - particularly domestic manufacturing, which drives more than 60% of big rig ton miles, and ocean imports.
    Lisa Baertlein, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Armed violence fuels nutrition crisis for Haitian families Famine is looming in Haiti as violence between armed groups continues, alongside extreme poverty and a deteriorating economy.
    Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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  • Losses were seen in BYD Company which plunged 4.03%, Meituan which dropped 1.02%, Xpeng which fell 3.46% and Baidu which was down 0.29%. Elsewhere, gains were seen in Tencent which edged up 0.17%, Xiaomi which increased 0.73% , SenseTime which added 2.11% and JD.com which advanced 2.91%.
    Amala Balakrishner, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Divorce Is Often Deferred, Not Prevented When the economy plunges, so does the financial feasibility of divorce.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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  • At the time, according to Mark Green, an IRS spokesman, Congress believed deductions for personal interest encouraged people to consume and stifle savings.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
  • The students met regularly and secretly with their professors to study literature, philosophy and theology from the Catholic intellectual tradition, banned by the Nazi regime as part of Hitler’s strategy to first stifle and then strangle the Catholic Church in Germany.
    Peter Nguyen, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • Some bumblebee populations have been disappearing from the southern parts of their geographic range and have been found in cooler regions to the north and in more mountainous areas.
    Courtney McGinnis, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Much of the production that Boston typically counts on disappeared.
    Jay King, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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  • Answer: Your withdrawals from retirement plans won’t reduce your Social Security directly.
    Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
  • The trial of estrogen alone also raised safety concerns, though both types of therapy reduced the risk of bone fractures.
    Jean Wactawski-Wende, The Conversation, 2 May 2025
Verb
  • Shawn reluctantly agrees, but is humiliated when Cory starts acting corny around his friend Gambling Dan (Phil Buckman), and his lackey, Louie (Weiss).
    EW.com, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • He must be seen standing up to foreign oppressors who seek to humiliate China and thwart its rightful rise.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 11 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Rising bond yields Yields on 10-year Treasury bonds typically fall – and their prices rise - as investors flee stocks for the safe haven of Treasuries during economic slowdowns.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • For hitters as young as the Orioles’, falling behind early night after night might be even more demoralizing.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • First, there was a drip-drip-drip of crisis: as costs everywhere rose, city, state, and federal monies faded away once COVID-era bailout efforts came to an end.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2025
  • He’s got a big smile and that Generation Z vibe, maybe a freshly cut fade every three to four weeks.
    Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Sink.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sink. Accessed 8 May. 2025.

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