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cavern

[kav-ern] / ˈkæv ərn /
NOUN
hollow in land formation
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But small excavations between 2021 and 2024, brought on by Bolton's chance visit to the cavern, uncovered evidence of both humans and animals over more than 120,000 years.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

Air Products—a major supplier and distributor of helium, serving customers in electronics, aerospace and medical imaging—said drawing on its storage cavern in Beaumont allowed it to service clients despite curtailments from Qatar.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

At the end of this cavern is a corridor, which is almost 30 metres long and three metres across, and which leads to a second chamber of the cave.

From Barron's May 21, 2026

Located between the Sahara tent and the Do Lab, the Bunker is a gigantic subterranean cavern with room for 300 or so people — a dark and cool respite from the blazing Indio sun.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 10, 2026

He shivered with the cold of the cavern.

From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

In underground salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana, the U.S. government stores hundreds of millions of barrels worth of oil in case of energy shocks.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

Benchmark U.S. natural-gas futures are trading about 10% below year-ago levels thanks to strong domestic production and comfortable spring weather that enabled traders to sock away fuel in storage caverns.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Teddy Thompson’s voice is a golden, vivid instrument capable of conjuring joy and caverns of heartache.

From Salon Jun. 5, 2026

The caverns offer “the best security and the most affordable means of storage,” it said, compared with above-ground tanks.

From MarketWatch May 28, 2026

“Ilya said the caverns went under the river. That some of them were full of water.”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack




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