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Recent Examples of sinkhole
Seoul officials said 223 sinkholes appeared in the city from 2015 to 2024.
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Stella Kim, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2025
Dashcam captures horrifying moment #Seoul sinkhole swallows motorbike, killing rider.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Eventually, the cave ceilings collapsed and left behind sinkholes.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
First responders with Dallas Fire & Rescue arrived to find the truck in the sinkhole.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Stella Kim, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2025
Dashcam captures horrifying moment #Seoul sinkhole swallows motorbike, killing rider.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 25 Mar. 2025
Eventually, the cave ceilings collapsed and left behind sinkholes.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
First responders with Dallas Fire & Rescue arrived to find the truck in the sinkhole.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sinkhole
Noun
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Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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But in the lower basin, the groundwater lies deeper and is largely disconnected from the river.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
27 May 2025
Noun
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For decades, conservationists successfully plugged that hole by arguing in court that the ESA’s prohibition of harm to individual species includes destroying a species’ habitat.—
Emma Marris,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2025
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Other cavity nesters such as woodpeckers will make holes in trees, and those can also be adopted by tree swallows, flickers, kestrels and chickadees.—
Ernie Cowan,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
Noun
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To call it a splashy luncheon wouldn’t be quite accurate, as the splashes were more puddles due to the buckets of rain.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
21 May 2025
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Containers reflected in a puddle following a rainfall, at the Yantian port in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China May 9, 2025.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
20 May 2025
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Break up the set entirely by pairing the top with linen trousers or the shorts with a button-down for lounging by the pool.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2025
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From an initial pool of 51 candidate variants, the scientists narrowed it down to three genes, only one of which was likely to play any role in gene regulation: Arhgap36.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
31 May 2025
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“Sinkhole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sinkhole. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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