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chasm

[kaz-uhm] / ˈkæz əm /


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Rather than flattening payroll disparities, however, the gap between high-spending teams and small-market clubs has created a gaping chasm over the past three decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

There’s a vast chasm between doing nothing and spending money trying to rehouse this relative and manage all his affairs.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

Yet some users saying goodbye this week lamented the chasm that would be left after their companions vanish.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

A chasm had opened between the network of increasingly corporate-minded nonprofit theaters and the artists this system was built to serve.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

He could hear her gasping with small, smothered sobs as he approached the chasm.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

But still, 250 years after the Revolution, the British monarchy somehow avoids these partisan chasms endemic throughout the rest of American society.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Microscopic chasms forming a sea of conical jagged peaks stipple the surface of a material called black silicon.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

Soil particles fall into these gaps too, enlarging the chasms and facilitating the collection of more water.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 10, 2023

Scientists have found them deep in ocean chasms, and in volcanic vents, glaciers, caves and mines.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2023

Arion was playing a dangerous game of tag, charging around the giant while Alyconeus swiped at them with his staff, knocking over walls and cleaving massive chasms in the ice.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan




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