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as in concave
curved inward
our convalescing guest's sunken cheeks soon filled out on a diet of my mother's cooking
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Recent Examples of sunken
Each room features a private sunken patio.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
Eddies downstream from peninsulas, brush tops, sunken trees, deep holes, and other current breaks are ideal.
—John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.
—Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Located near East Aurora High School, Phillips Park is a 400-acre public recreation area with a playground, a zoo, sunken gardens, a golf course and a family aquatics center, although the latter is a partnership between the city and the Fox Valley Park District.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
Eddies downstream from peninsulas, brush tops, sunken trees, deep holes, and other current breaks are ideal.
—John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
The sunken battleship entombs more than 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.
—Jim Mustian, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Located near East Aurora High School, Phillips Park is a 400-acre public recreation area with a playground, a zoo, sunken gardens, a golf course and a family aquatics center, although the latter is a partnership between the city and the Fox Valley Park District.
—R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunken
Adjective
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Using a clean towel, apply a generous amount of food-safe mineral oil to the concave side.—
Staff Author,
Martha Stewart,
31 Mar. 2026
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Lightly wet just the concave side of the board and place it on a damp kitchen towel on your countertop.—
Lizzy Briskin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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In early 2021, anchors from large container ships hooked an underwater oil pipeline on the ocean floor some 5 miles off Huntington Beach’s coast, bending it like a straw.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
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At this year’s Venice Biennale, the performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger used the stage of the Austria Pavilion to alert viewers to an increasingly underwater dystopia.—
Lilyanna D'Amato,
ARTnews.com,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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Somewhere in time, a child is climbing up a hollow carved out between two hills.—
Maggie O’Farrell,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2026
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As far as Clark understands it, the layout, objects and inhabitants of the Backrooms are plucked from the real world, the otherworldly space only able to create hollow, distorted copies.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Water sampling at the aquatic center has consistently shown nothing out of the ordinary, the Village of Orland Park said.—
Asal Rezaei,
CBS News,
31 May 2026
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Feed lilies and other aquatic plants in home water gardens.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2026
Adjective
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One reason Red Sea traffic remains depressed is because ships can bypass it and avoid the security risk altogether by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
30 May 2026
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As anxiety has mounted about depressed entry-level hiring, with Gen Z crowds even booing luminaries such as Eric Schmidt amid commencement speeches touting AI, Dimon has given warm but blunt advice to ambitious young workers.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
29 May 2026
Adjective
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One of the major functions of modern navies is submarine hunting.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2026
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Last December, lawmakers passed a short-term funding bill that included $5.7 billion in emergency funding for the submarine industrial base.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The submarine departed from the Port of Kaohsiung for its latest testing mission, marking its 15th sea trial and ninth submerged navigation test.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
2 June 2026
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Multiple vehicles became submerged and in at least one case, a driver had to be rescued from the roof of her car.—
Irene Wright,
USA Today,
26 May 2026
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“Sunken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunken. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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