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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
The park recommends a few diving locations, including Big Wall/Small Wall, Jenny’s Drift, and Junk, a sunken boat sitting at 60 feet underwater.
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
Each room features a private sunken patio.
—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
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Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 22 May 2026
Each room features a private sunken patio.
—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
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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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The cotton blend breathes beautifully, and the hollow-out pattern adds visual interest without sacrificing coverage.—
Amanda Eyre Ward,
Travel + Leisure,
8 June 2026
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Your success stops feeling hollow.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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The pair are compiling a survey of the aquatic bugs in the reemerging canyons and how those underwater worlds are changing as time passes.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
7 June 2026
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This aquatic and citrus scent quite literally smells like eating an orange on a boat in the middle of a calm ocean at sunset.—
Reece Andavolgyi,
InStyle,
6 June 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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But a new antenna technology, borrowed from the physics of medical implants, is rethinking how submarine machines talk to each other – and to us.—
Omar Kardoudi
June 06,
New Atlas,
6 June 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 10 Jun. 2026.
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