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cave in

[kayv-in] / ˈkeɪvˌɪn /


















VERB
implode
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Those excavations were designed to determine how people collected and used plants inside the cave in the distant past.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

Yet, every day ends with him retreating to his cave in exhaustion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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 earth was perfect for a gopher hole too, black and soft and yet with a little clay in it so that it didn’t crumble and the tunnels didn’t cave in.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck




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