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All told, the Red Sox are a major league-best 19-2 since June 25, propelling them from the abyss and into a wild-card spot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

But as the Games approached, nation after nation boycotted and the event faced financial abyss.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

This whole Western Conference semifinal series against these defending champions has been a lose-lose proposition for the Lakers, who are now down 3-0 and staring into the elimination abyss in Game 4 on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

So it is worth taking a moment to stare into the abyss and think through what the world—and your investment portfolio—might look like if the strait still isn’t open by Labor Day or by Christmas.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

“Once more, how do you know? By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne—between a guide and a seducer?”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

At his debut press conference, he vowed to face down "multitudinous minefields and 30,000-metre abysses" in reforming China.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

And while the play never explicitly explores its underlying theme—that music can help bridge the gaps, or the abysses, that divide people—the deft integration of story and song illuminates it naturally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

The land shelved steeply from the shore, and after we swam out only a short way, huge dark blue depths would begin to reveal themselves below, abysses of rock and darkness.

From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022

“I seemed every night to descend, not metaphorically, but literally to descend, into chasms and sunless abysses, depths below depths,” he wrote.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 10, 2016

Not without apparent justice, therefore, do her distant admirers impute to her the power of opening up unfathomable abysses of nature, to which the senses cannot penetrate.

From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach