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cesspool

[ses-pool] / ˈsɛsˌpul /
NOUN
pit
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It was into the post-noughties misogynist cesspool that the early feminist blogosphere was born, and initially, it was fun and freewheeling.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

The misery now being inflicted on poor people crowded into cesspool camps from the Congo to Bangladesh defies description.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

Some people, however, go as far as creating burner accounts just for shopping to keep the cesspool of targeted ads separate from their main profiles where they interact with family and friends.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025

It is the year 79, and “Rome, once the beacon of civilization, is now a cesspool of corruption and decay.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

Not back in South El Paso, where he had first lived in a little apartment above a bar, then in a little adobe house that had a cesspool instead of a sewer.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger




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