excavations

plural of excavation

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Noun
  • Along with Lane Johnson and Landon Dickerson, the position group’s three of the team’s six total Pro Bowl selections tied the Kansas City Chiefs for the league’s most within the offensive trenches.
    Brooks Kubena, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Nebraska’s most promising young linemen are likely not ready for the Big Ten trenches.
    Mitch Sherman, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In addition to three obvious places—Carlsbad, Wind Cave, and Mammoth Cave—other national parks have caverns.
    Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 4 Apr. 2025
  • The valley blanketed in trees and speckled with caves and caverns combines with the peaks and hills surrounding it to create an outdoor lover’s paradise.
    Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Fluoride is the primary ingredient of toothpaste and helps strengthen tooth enamel and reduce the risk of cavities.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Advocates for fluoride in drinking water, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, say there’s no doubt public health is better served by local governments continuing to use water supplies to reduce cavities in the population.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Despite being a shameless queue jumper who seems to slide through ski lift crowds like water, she's clearly respected and adored by countless people across the valleys.
    Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement Temperatures on Christmas Day will be in the mid-60s, possibly reaching low 70s in some of the valleys.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The money was intended to help build three structures on canals and basins in North Miami-Dade and Broward counties to improve flood mitigation.
    Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2025
  • As one of the few impact basins on the farside, the SPA basin is one of the few farside locations with thorium on the surface, where the impact that formed the basin dug deep enough into the mantle to bring the melt to the surface.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Excavations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excavations. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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