as in hole
a sunken area forming a separate space
a cavity in the lawn where a tree stump had been removed
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Recent Examples of cavity
Visit a dentist every six months for a professional teeth cleaning and to have your teeth checked for cavities.
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Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
In the place of the stomach was an enormous red cavity held open by sticks in the shape of a cross.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Yet that 300-grain bullet with its 4,400 pounds of shocking power never got beyond the chest cavity.
—Tom Stacer, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
In some areas, the level of naturally occurring fluoride in the water is already at a level that can prevent cavities.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
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Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2025
In the place of the stomach was an enormous red cavity held open by sticks in the shape of a cross.
—Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2025
Yet that 300-grain bullet with its 4,400 pounds of shocking power never got beyond the chest cavity.
—Tom Stacer, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2025
In some areas, the level of naturally occurring fluoride in the water is already at a level that can prevent cavities.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavity
Noun
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Better yet, seal up holes in your house to prevent the mice from entering to begin with and store food in rodent proof (preferably glass or metal) containers.—
Judy Stone,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Audi can make your 2010s niche racing dreams come true, in other words, which is probably a better way to spend the money burning a hole in your pocket than buying yet another supercar that will sit in a garage to be admired.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
7 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Then the pandemic sparked a moving frenzy, putting a serious dent in that number.—
Samantha Latson,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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If 200,000 Gold Cards are sold at $5 million each, the resulting $1 trillion could make a meaningful dent in the national debt.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Regan Smith gets only Cup win On May 7, 2011, Regan Smith — now a pit reporter for NASCAR on FOX — won the only race of his Cup Series career, defeating newly-inducted Hall of Famer Carl Edwards by 0.196 seconds in the Southern 500.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Apr. 2025
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Surrounded by the red rock landscape the region is famous for, the property also has a pool, hot tub and community fire pits. Follow me on Twitter.—
Brittany Anas,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Antonio Stradivari, for instance, carefully tinkered with the geometry of his violins—the relative concavity of the back and the front, the thickness of the wood—to produce his legendary results.—
Chris Almeida,
The New Yorker,
6 Jan. 2024
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Fluted white marble columns sit on black granite pedestals, carrying the eye upward to where lines slide over, folds narrow, and concavities become convex.—
Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
3 Aug. 2023
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“Cavity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavity. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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