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as in to engulf
to cover with a flood
submerged by orders after being featured on a popular foodie blog
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as in to immerse
to sink or push (something) briefly into or as if into a liquid
submerge the tomatoes in boiling hot water for a few seconds and they will be easier to peel
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as in to stifle
to refrain from openly showing or uttering
learned to submerge her ego and became a better teammate for doing so
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Recent Examples of submerge
Plus, this impersonation took place while 90 percent submerged in water.
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there are too many lulls between these high points, the energy depleted even more by a lighting design that keeps the action too often submerged in shadow.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2024
City officials were dealing with the aftermath on Tuesday of a major water main break in the Bronx that submerged cars and forced roads to close Monday night.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
According to photographs from the scene, the black Jeep Wrangler was fully submerged before heavy equipment was able to pull the vehicle from the water.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Dalton Ross, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
But there are too many lulls between these high points, the energy depleted even more by a lighting design that keeps the action too often submerged in shadow.
—Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2024
City officials were dealing with the aftermath on Tuesday of a major water main break in the Bronx that submerged cars and forced roads to close Monday night.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
According to photographs from the scene, the black Jeep Wrangler was fully submerged before heavy equipment was able to pull the vehicle from the water.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
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Now that social media has engulfed culture, pop songs are teased as snippets, mined for the briefest hooks and effects, choreographed for vertical screens and pitched as the latest plot twist in a performer’s continuing, open-ended reality series, otherwise known as a career.Jon Pareles, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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With the star ready to explode into life — and threatening to engulf the Earth in the process — Joy grabs the briefcase and absorbs the seed into herself.Richard Edwards, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024
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Actor Nick Pupo plays Yarrow in A Complete Unknown. Peter, Paul and Mary were immersed in the volatile politics of the 1960s.Newsweek, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
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In another photo, the trio of ladies were immersed in conversation, as was Chalamet, and all four stars were smiling.Julia Moore, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Lots of people stifle their own desires, like leaning into creative pursuits, to accommodate others, Morse points out.Angela Haupt, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025
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In a bid to curtail electronic waste, the EU required manufacturers to ensure that devices such as cameras, phones and tablets all used the same charging port (and therefore cable): USB-C. Apple initially resisted this move, saying that such a requirement could stifle creativity.David Phelan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Every year since 2020, the highway across from the port had flooded with hundreds of people marching with pictures of their dead loved ones, glimpses of particular griefs.Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Florida has seen the biggest year-over-year surge in stale inventory in the entire nation in November, according to a new report by real estate brokerage Redfin, as new properties flooded the market at a time when few seemed to be interested in buying them.George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
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When that didn’t happen, districts had to dip into their emergency reserves to cover operating costs.Silas Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Jan. 2025
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The immense storm system brought disruption to areas of the country that usually escape winter’s wrath, downing trees in some Southern states, threatening a freeze in Florida and causing people in Dallas to dip deep into their wardrobes for warm hats and gloves.Patrick Whittle and Brian Witte, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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There must be severe consequences for the concerted effort to suppress the public’s knowledge of Biden’s cognitive deficits.Robert J. Delahunty, National Review, 31 Dec. 2024
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Lipton felt the lack of scoring, excitement and substantial press coverage combined to suppress local support.Pablo Maurer, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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This lack of collaboration is untenable in the current reality where the sea of fast-moving, stealth attackers threatens to overwhelm the dike entirely.Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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While liberals run the country from the Washington bureaucracy out to the grassroots, conservatives run the country by arousing the grassroots to overwhelm the resistance of Washington.Newt Gingrich, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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The proliferation of point solutions—tools that solve only one or two specific pain points—has left organizations drowning in software.Joshua Siler, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Outside of Hulk Hogan drowning in boos, the Monday Night Raw debut on Netflix was a rousing success.Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Submerge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/submerge. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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