crater

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Sharp, who worked at the Greenwich Royal Observatory and has a crater on the moon named after him, was also a mathematician who calculated pi to 72 decimal places.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

In a worst-case scenario, the stock market could crater, the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates and the cost of borrowing could rise.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026

Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

AFP footage showed heavy damage to an apartment building, next to a crater formed in the ground.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

“Just crater after crater after crater. And most times you can’t even see the aircraft. We could only hear them.”

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge