Thesaurus results for ABYSS

abyss

noun

ə-ˈbis

as in ocean

an immeasurable depth or space looking down at the dark ocean from the ship's rail, the cruise passenger felt as though he was staring into an abyss

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Recent Examples of abyss There’s a sense of hope in Denver, but the organization still has a ways to go before truly escaping the dark abyss it’s been in since 2016. —

Ryan McFadden, The Denver Post, 30 Oct. 2024 Dodgers outlast Padres to advance to NLCS. Ali: Elon Musk’s courtship with MAGA has driven X into misinformation abyss. —

Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024 Winter isn’t plumbing the moral abyss at the heart of violent men. —

Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2024 Through the deliberately standard-issue story of an amateur criminal (Michael Fassbender) trying to arrange a $20 million drug shipment from a Ciudad Juárez cartel, McCarthy stares into the abyss of human evil and the abyss stares back, pitilessly. —

Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for abyss

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Due to the nuclear revolution (and also due to the width of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans) there is no plausible scenario under which China or Russia could disarm and conquer the United States, or vice versa.

Shane Croucher, Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2024
To be more specific, the rapid surge in warming was supercharged by a dearth of low-lying clouds over the oceans, according to the research — findings which may have alarming implications for future warming.

Laura Paddison, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024