abyss
Example Sentences
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Elsewhere, “Navalny” filmmaker Daniel Roher also tries to look at the bright side in his latest, “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist,” but only after gazing into the abyss.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026
Yes, he has managed to get both because he has a good, long-term job, and he’s slowly crawling out of the abyss.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
Not long ago, Gardner and Williams were reasons to hope that the Jets were close to clawing their way out of their perpetual abyss.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025
Klein attached an array of small pebbles to the painting's surface, making it "evocative of a seabed beneath the blue abyss of an ocean", according to the auction house's description.
From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025
Ben did not understand why his mother, his sister, and his friends had to bleed, hurt, and cramp; the separateness was an abyss, a continental divide that kept them apart.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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