as in sink
a place of great vice and corruption
over the decades the once-respectable neighborhood had become an urban cesspool
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Drafting players involves a cesspool of uncertainty, overconfidence and unpredictability.
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Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
Advertisement Over the years, residents have seen the ecosystem change into an unrecognizable landscape — once clear ponds stocked with fish are now gray cesspools filled with white foam that is visible even in Google’s satellite images.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Similarly, Musk has transformed Twitter into a dull, fetid cesspool of White nationalism and paranoid lies.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
Other toilets of the same type — known unflatteringly as large-capacity cesspools — were removed proactively in the Angeles National Forest, officials said.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
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Alec Lewis, The Athletic, 29 Aug. 2024
Advertisement Over the years, residents have seen the ecosystem change into an unrecognizable landscape — once clear ponds stocked with fish are now gray cesspools filled with white foam that is visible even in Google’s satellite images.
—Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
Similarly, Musk has transformed Twitter into a dull, fetid cesspool of White nationalism and paranoid lies.
—Michelle Goldberg, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024
Other toilets of the same type — known unflatteringly as large-capacity cesspools — were removed proactively in the Angeles National Forest, officials said.
—Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024
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“Cesspool.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cesspool. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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