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cavern

[kav-ern] / ˈkæv ərn /
NOUN
hollow in land formation
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The 43-square-foot cavern was filled with colorful leather bags made by a local artisan named Iota Zaggle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

If we were to squeeze through small cracks in his mind’s cavern walls or crawl down its miniaturized hallways toward Erickson's nerve center, we might find ourselves in a room with a broken printer.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025

At the other end of the cavern, the tunnel Hazel and Leo had entered was buried under tons of rubble.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

It is, rather, “a series of fan’s notes, material brought back from some of the remoter caverns of Tolkien’s imagination, into which . . . critics and biographers have rarely strayed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The U.S. has released more than 128 million barrels from strategic salt caverns on the Gulf Coast in a bid to mitigate the impact of the monthslong closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Freshly excavated caverns 100m underground sit next to stores that have been used for sparkling wine, apples and cheese in recent years.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The 60 Gulf Coast salt caverns that make up the stocks can’t be drawn from or refilled at the rate at which they were designed, federal researchers found.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Every footstep seemed to pull him deeper down into the caverns of his memories.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray


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