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crater

noun as in cavity

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Then the desk behind us gets shoved to the wall with enough force to create a crater in the sleek wood.

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She looked at the craters of the moon and watched falling stars streak through the skies.

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A recently uncovered and unusually intact impact crater is offering scientists new insights into how objects from space have struck Earth throughout its history.

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This week Elon Musk suggested on X that quantum computing would run best on the "permanently shadowed craters of the moon".

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Early results suggested the crater was formed by an asteroid several hundred meters wide about 66 million years ago, but proof remained uncertain.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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