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cave

[kayv] / keɪv /


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"There was a part that was pitch black and there were three or four of us standing there in the cave, unable to see a thing," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

They spend a month in Samos, an island in the eastern Aegean, where Pythagoras dwelt in a cave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The site, dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish, is expected to start operations soon, but Posiva said no exact date had been decided yet.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Until now, no freshwater cave snails had been documented in China, and the country's subterranean freshwater mollusks had received relatively little scientific attention.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

Like going inside and becoming a cave painting.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Owls and bees take refuge in little caves there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

The missions will search for underground caves that could shelter astronauts, investigate hidden deposits of lunar ice, and monitor environmental hazards that could threaten future explorers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

In a good year, four billion moths or more would escape the inland heat to seek shelter in the alpine caves of eastern Australia.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Visitors to Les Combarelles, Rouffignac, Lascaux and the other caves are often profoundly moved by what they find,” he writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

There are caves beneath those caves that the tourists do not know and do not ever get to visit.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

The photographer was shocked to see his studio roof had completely caved in.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

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

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

Train Ear shrank when his skinny chest caved in.

From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia

It’s been a success, despite one 300-pounder busting through the net around his basketball court and the diving board caving under the strain of a back-flip competition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Yet the trick of this irresistible groove is that it feels like a house party caving in on itself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Paakkarinen was careful not to go into detail but said "the equipment we found them with wasn't optimal. They weren't using underwater caving gear".

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

History suggests they will hesitate before eventually caving to his will.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2026

All around them the world seemed to be caving in; the way of life that had existed in Odessa for sixty years was badly shaken.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger


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