sinkhole
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They’re trying to come to grips with the new reality when they both fall into a sinkhole and wake up in Nakali.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Aerial footage shows a massive sinkhole in front of a house in Malibu, California, reportedly belonging to US actor Nicolas Cage.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
People living in an upmarket coastal stretch of Malibu were under an evacuation order Wednesday after a giant sinkhole opened up on the driveway of a beachfront home belonging to Oscar-winning US actor Nicolas Cage.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Pounding surf lashing the swanky California enclave of Malibu on Tuesday opened up a giant sinkhole on the driveway of a house reportedly belonging to US actor Nicolas Cage.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mom began to tell her mother about the sinkhole and the emergency relocation plan, so I made my way upstairs.
From "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor
Elsewhere along Wemmer Pan Road are cracks and sinkholes from underground blasting by irregular miners digging under the city for gold and other minerals.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Network Rail said engineers discovered a number of sinkholes on a bridge south of the station during planned engineering work on the lines outside Purley, and "urgent repairs" were needed.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Runoff from wildfire burn areas or bacteria such as E. coli could enter sinkholes connected to Roaring Springs Cave and reach the water supply.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
During more than four decades as a private-equity investor, he swung from gushers of profit to sinkholes of red ink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
He’d been trying to ignore the dead praetor, but now Varus walked over, surrounded in a hazy white aura, his deep-set eyes like sinkholes.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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Earth Science - Middle School
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