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abyss

noun as in something very deep, usually a feature of land

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“I’m supposed to know how to transmit information. Prices were moving so quickly I couldn’t get a fix. It felt like a black hole. The abyss.”

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“The violation of the freedom to use international waters,” Khrushchev charged, “is an act of aggression which pushes mankind toward the abyss of a world nuclear missile war.”

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The migratory sea creatures disappeared back down into the abyss.

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Billionaires, if you listen to politicians and their supporters, will either lead us to salvation on the mountaintop, or into the abyss.

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Not long ago, Gardner and Williams were reasons to hope that the Jets were close to clawing their way out of their perpetual abyss.

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

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