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as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
line up the pegs on section A with the holes in section B and press the two together
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as in pit
a sunken area forming a separate space
dig a hole big enough to plant the tree
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as in predicament
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
Bill dug himself into a hole by promising to be in two places at the same time
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as in dump
a dirty or messy place
when people see my room, they often ask, "How can you live in this hole?"
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as in gap
an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)
found a hole in the chain-link fence big enough to squeeze through
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as in void
an incomplete or deficient area
there's a huge hole in your logic
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as in to drill
to make a hole or series of holes in
holed the target with a round of shots
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Recent Examples of hole
Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
Weatherstripping While caulking is best for filling in small gaps, weatherstripping is a better heavy-duty option for larger gaps and holes on movable window parts.
—Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
Watch:Milton rips hole the size of a basketball court in Melbourne Orlando Airport's roof
Watch: Florida man jogs as Hurricane Milton hits Florida
Unplanned events can occur during a journalist's live shot, especially during a major weather event.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Everything seems to come alive at once, opening a hole in the floor that emits a weird, gaseous black… something.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
Weatherstripping While caulking is best for filling in small gaps, weatherstripping is a better heavy-duty option for larger gaps and holes on movable window parts.
—Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
Verb
Scheffler found a bunker right of the 18th green, and nearly holed the sand shot.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
Watch:Milton rips hole the size of a basketball court in Melbourne Orlando Airport's roof
Watch: Florida man jogs as Hurricane Milton hits Florida
Unplanned events can occur during a journalist's live shot, especially during a major weather event.
—Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hole
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Kyiv's military intelligence agency has extensively used synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites to coordinate its long-range drone strikes on Russia, as Newsweek previously reported.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Sharp shooters with relatively fast aperture, producing clean shots at the wide (main and selfie camera), or 85mm telephoto (3X zoom) focal length.Ben Sin, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Little ones can frolic in the Snow Bounce room or in a pit of fake snowballs in the Northern Lights section, where representations of the aurora borealis drift above.The New York Times, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Tens of thousands exposed in Iraq, Afghanistan Disposing of trash in open-air burn pits was a common practice, especially at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, which together burned trash in more than 270 pits in 2010, according to an estimate by the U.S. Defense Department's Central Command.Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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The confusion over Everton’s managerial situation has been unhelpful given the team’s predicament.Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
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The widespread indifference to the Uyghurs’ predicament exposes double standards, not only among today’s prevailing political ideologies, but also within the international politics of human rights.Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
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Weatherstripping While caulking is best for filling in small gaps, weatherstripping is a better heavy-duty option for larger gaps and holes on movable window parts.Rabekah Henderson, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
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This chart also suggests BST, which sports an 8% discount to NAV (or the gap between its market price and NAV), is a great buy now.Michael Foster, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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The South Asian American ethnic sub-genre also stands out for its take on family relations, which contrast with the typical narratives about heroines who fly the nest and learn to live independently.H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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The female will deposit eggs outside of the body, usually near the bottom of a body of water or in a nest built out of rocks and other sediment.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 8 Jan. 2025
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Roki Sasaki is their top choice to fill the void, but what if Sasaki signs elsewhere?Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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The impressive form of players like Elliot Anderson, the summer signing from Newcastle, has more than filled the void left by the duo’s absence.Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Open More Federal Lands and Waters to Drilling Trump will likely move quickly to open additional onshore and offshore acreage to drilling.Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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An international team of scientists has achieved a groundbreaking feat in climate research by drilling a core of ice that could hold secrets dating back more than a million years.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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“Hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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