cave
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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
On a Turkish hillside overlooking the olive-covered slopes outside Izmir is a cave known to generations of locals as the place where Homer penned "The Odyssey".
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
"The land above the cave… slid after the heavy rain that lasted throughout the night," Dagnachew Azbite, a senior local official, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
He fell asleep watching the silent green boughs of the First Tree, while Wolf sped out of the cave on some mysterious errand of his own.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Taylor says various examples demonstrate that keeping things underground, or deep inside caves, is an effective defensive strategy.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
There are even exotic offerings like timber and salt caves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
By examining how these more recent bones were deposited and altered, the researchers aimed to understand how fossils belonging to extinct megafauna may also have entered underwater caves.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
Later, merchants and government officials sponsored larger and more elaborately decorated caves to curry karmic favor on their journeys, as well as to promote their particular religious and aesthetic visions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Once we’re off the shuttle, I’ll convince Feathers, Suma, and Rubio to follow me to the caves.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
Visitors may have noticed that Odorysseus’ spadix — the conic protrusion emerging upward from the plant — was much taller than Odora’s, which had caved in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
After fretting and weighing the pros and cons, I eventually caved and decided to start mine young.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
"The roof is completely caved in along the back of the wall and it just brings in other fears and further concerns about the structural integrity and safety of the building," she added.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
She resisted joining the club for decades due to the policy, but eventually caved after she got tired of attending events as someone else’s guest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“If there was one moment I might have caved, that was it,” said Burry.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
History suggests they will hesitate before eventually caving to his will.
From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026
While I’d like to push back more, I know myself, and will end up caving and buying a new dress.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
You couldn’t be caught caving to an advertiser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
He said weightlifters can try to squat 500 pounds daily without days off, or attempt to squat 500 pounds with their knees caving in and buckling because of terrible form.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2025
It’s just the house settling, I told myself—or caving in!
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
