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cave in

[keyv-in] / ˈkeɪvˌɪn /


















VERB
implode
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This season appeared to get off to a prosperous start until the roof began to cave in over in Austria.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Her first eclipse, seen in 2006 from a cave in Cappadocia, Turkey, made Whitman Check hyperventilate and her husband cry.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki, southwest Finland, the geological repository for spent nuclear waste -- dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish -- is nearly ready to start operations.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

The site is also close to a cave in the Wye Valley where some of the earliest evidence of post-ice-age humans in Britain was discovered.

From Science Daily May 13, 2026

The trouble was, not many people wanted to hire a handyman whose own house was about to cave in.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney




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