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as in concave
curved inward
our convalescing guest's sunken cheeks soon filled out on a diet of my mother's cooking
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Recent Examples of sunken
To the right is the sunken living room, which has a row of clerestory windows and a fireplace with a ceiling-height brick surround.
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Angela Serratore, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Even with all that to choose from, Don’s penthouse apartment from season five, with its sunken living room, wood-paneling, and floor-to-ceiling windows, takes the cake.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 24 Dec. 2024
After the long dinner, wives and sisters-in-law gathered in the kitchen, helping clean up and doing their best to connect in different languages, while the rest of the party moved into the sunken living room.
—Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Searching for sunken treasure has never been like that.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Angela Serratore, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
Even with all that to choose from, Don’s penthouse apartment from season five, with its sunken living room, wood-paneling, and floor-to-ceiling windows, takes the cake.
—Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 24 Dec. 2024
After the long dinner, wives and sisters-in-law gathered in the kitchen, helping clean up and doing their best to connect in different languages, while the rest of the party moved into the sunken living room.
—Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Searching for sunken treasure has never been like that.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunken
Adjective
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Despite sounding contradictory, Eisen’s pieces appear to be very simple, but the minimal creations have complex shapes including concave ones.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
16 Jan. 2025
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Use the domed brush for concave bath tubs and sinks, or the pointed brush for corners and groutlines.—
Clara McMahon,
People.com,
3 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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With the war over, President Harry Truman proclaimed that an underwater area of some 750,000 square miles—about 4.5 Californias—now belonged to America.—
Jack Truesdale,
The Atlantic,
25 Jan. 2025
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Sun rays reflect light off the underwater quartz particles, making the sand shine upwards onto the water’s surface and creating that signature crystal-clear emerald shade.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
25 Jan. 2025
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While seemingly well-intentioned, this directive is a hollow threat to a player who goes on to a successful MLB career.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
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What the Chiefs do would be hollow, even impossible, without the fans who animate and fund them and who made this the place to be 60-plus years ago — and in a whole new way now.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
12 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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For aquatic turtles, the animal hospitals said males average 7 to 9 inches long, while females average 10 to 12 inches long.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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For more information about the pool, visit the YMCA aquatic facilities webpage.—
Tammy Murga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Trump’s high-end real estate ambitions with GOP connections Gen Z employees are stressed, depressed, and burnt out: Study Netflix keeps raising prices.—
Quartz Bot,
Quartz,
22 Jan. 2025
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The study also reveals that 46 percent of Gen Z felt stressed (compared to the 35 percent employee average), 35 percent felt depressed (compared to 20 percent average), 44 percent felt burned out (compared to 34 percent), and 30 percent felt isolated (compared to 22 percent).—
Jess Thomson,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Deep Blue Sea—Learn about our oceans while on submarine Sea Lab Alpha with underwater explorers Marina and Reef.—
Anna Halkidis,
Parents,
6 Dec. 2024
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Known as an innovator in the grocery business, Violante enhanced the experience at Holiday Market with an in-store bakery, freshly made submarine sandwiches, and beers from around the world, according to his family obituary.—
Susan Selasky,
Detroit Free Press,
16 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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The body of a missing woman in England has been found in a submerged car in a river three days after she was last seen.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
21 Jan. 2025
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The remains of more than 900 Arizona crew members are entombed in the submerged vessel beneath a memorial in their honor.—
Audrey McAvoy,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Dec. 2024
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“Sunken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunken. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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