as in cavern
a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface
Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is actually a series of large chambers on five levels
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Recent Examples of cave
Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026
Littlewoods lets children up to age 4 burn some energy by climbing a treehouse and exploring a bear cave.
—Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
Peter Baugh, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
On Thursday, Amodei signaled the company wouldn’t cave to the Department of Defense’s demands to loosen safety restrictions on its AI models.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
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Noun
An article in 1900 describes a fisherman finding two skeletons in a cave along the banks of Trinity’s West Fork, about 10 to 12 miles west of downtown.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026
Littlewoods lets children up to age 4 burn some energy by climbing a treehouse and exploring a bear cave.
—Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
Will any of the interested parties cave and meet Drury’s demands before the clock winds down?
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
On Thursday, Amodei signaled the company wouldn’t cave to the Department of Defense’s demands to loosen safety restrictions on its AI models.
—Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cave
Noun
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Decades of static storage lead to the unavoidable accumulation of heavy waxes, dense inorganic sediments, and highly corrosive hydrogen sulfide produced by sulfate-reducing bacteria — turning the bottom of the cavern into a chemical nightmare.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Few caverns possess the same cache of fossils as Bender’s Cave, however.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Woods was arrested and charged with DUI, property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test, Budensiek said.—
Melissa Gaffney,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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This is typically the final stage of testing before a drug can be submitted for regulatory approval.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Its attractions include a mossy, cool grotto of ferns as well as vast views of Ashdown Forest and distant towns.—
Amy Waldman,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Mar. 2026
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As the 14-year-old child of a poor family in 1858, Saint Bernadette experienced numerous apparitions of a young woman in a cave or grotto, seemingly the Virgin Mary, asking for a chapel to be built on the site.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Feb. 2026
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General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned Trump in the run-up to the invasion, but the president dismissed the warning, believing that Iran would capitulate instead.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
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Yet the air campaign, costing billions of dollars, has not forced Iran to capitulate and loosen its grip on the strait.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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The week of the recording, the church was beset with production assistants, security, Netflix employees and cases of AV equipment.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
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The football tournament, hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico and due to kick off on 11 June, had already been beset with criticism.—
Harriet Marsden,
TheWeek,
18 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Jung Hoo Lee, who’s still learning Oracle Park’s right field, overran Paul Goldschmidt’s base hit down the right-field line that caromed off the short, angled side wall in foul territory, allowing a single to become a double.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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In its early days, the site was overrun with humans desperate to make a quick buck — while the AI agents that would ostensibly assign those jobs were nowhere to be found.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Cave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cave. Accessed 29 Mar. 2026.
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