Noun
we dipped our feet in the warm waters of the gulf
the gulf of understanding between the two men was too wide for them to ever get along Verb
with the administration gulfed by so many real problems, it's absurd for the president to concern himself with this nonissue
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After all, the two teams have the largest gulf in terms of Transfermarkt squad value among all teams at the tournament.—Manuel Veth, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025 These efforts helped narrow the gulf between the performance of U.S. and Chinese AI tools on most popular benchmarks to single-digit percentages by the end of 2024.—Sebastian Elbaum, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2025
Verb
So many gulfs separate us now: geographical, anatomical, psychological.—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018 Read More: Gulf Spat Escalates as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Media Attack Qatar
Institutional and individual investors from the GCC sold 34.6 million riyals ($9.5 million) of Qatari stocks on Monday, the most in a single trading session since March 21.—Glen Carey, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017 See All Example Sentences for gulf
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English goulf, from Middle French golfe, from Italian golfo, from Late Latin colpus, from Greek kolpos bosom, gulf; akin to Old English hwealf vault, Old High German walbo
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