abyss
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But I’m blown away by how “It Ends” reaches into the abyss of contemporary living and pulls out something tangible for us to chew on.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
But as the Games approached, nation after nation boycotted and the event faced financial abyss.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
“For hourly matching, the infrastructure doesn’t exist and the markets don’t exist either. Mandating something in that situation is just a leap into the abyss, which is why we have a progressive approach,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
This whole Western Conference semifinal series against these defending champions has been a lose-lose proposition for the Lakers, who are now down 3-0 and staring into the elimination abyss in Game 4 on Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
After leaving the summit, fifteen minutes of cautious shuffling over a 7,000-foot abyss brought me to the notorious Hillary Step, a pronounced notch in the ridge that demands some technical maneuvering.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
At his debut press conference, he vowed to face down "multitudinous minefields and 30,000-metre abysses" in reforming China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
And while the play never explicitly explores its underlying theme—that music can help bridge the gaps, or the abysses, that divide people—the deft integration of story and song illuminates it naturally.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
The land shelved steeply from the shore, and after we swam out only a short way, huge dark blue depths would begin to reveal themselves below, abysses of rock and darkness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
But in cases of “deep imaginative feeling” it was natural to behold the “never-ending growth of one colossal grandeur chasing and surmounting another, or of abysses that swallowed up abysses.”
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016
Nor, on the other hand, can it be shown that any part of the existing ocean abysses ever rose above sea-level into dry land.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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Night
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Grade 9, List 5
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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