abyss

Not only do we carry the horrors of the universe in our pockets, we spend most of our waking hours gazing into that abyss in the name of staying informed.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

A Belfast High Court judge temporarily blocked it on Saturday, warning that the long-running dispute could escalate across Northern Ireland and urging the parties to "step back from the abyss".

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“An abyss opened in our country,” Machado said, describing a surge of public anger at the faltering government response.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

Mark rolled onto his stomach and inched his body over the lip of the opening, lowering his feet into the abyss while he held on to the edge.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

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

After all the abysses we’ve looked into over the course of the book, that’s not much of a blueprint for optimism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023

Ripples of electronic feedback crest into peaks and valleys of stretched echoes, decayed into hollowed abysses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

Out of a vast darkness in the south swung blacker abysses, where thunders breathed with a prolonged and terrible sighing; upon their flanks sheet-lightnings roamed.

From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod