abyss
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Not only do we carry the horrors of the universe in our pockets, we spend most of our waking hours gazing into that abyss in the name of staying informed.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
Before long, dead ends give way to a digital abyss, pulling them both into something that will alter their perception of reality and the lives of hundreds of others called to follow them.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
That success left me looking into an abyss a little bit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Asked if we had stepped back from the "abyss" cited by both Lockhart and a High Court Judge in reference to last week's court proceedings, Lockhart was firm that no progress had yet been made.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
José Arcadio Buendía, sunk in an abyss of unawareness, was deaf to her lamentations.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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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
Ripples of electronic feedback crest into peaks and valleys of stretched echoes, decayed into hollowed abysses.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022
Parker and company don’t rush into any flaming abysses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2021
This bank of Newfoundland, an enormous plateau surrounded on all sides by abysses five to six miles deep, is chiefly due to the contact of the Arctic current with the Gulf Stream.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume XXVII, Issue 160, April, 1904 by Various
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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