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crater

[krey-ter] / ˈkreɪ tər /


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Sharp, who worked at the Greenwich Royal Observatory and has a crater on the moon named after him, was also a mathematician who calculated pi to 72 decimal places.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Athena ended up in a frigid crater and tipped over, leaving its solar batteries unable to charge.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

AFP footage showed heavy damage to an apartment building, next to a crater formed in the ground.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

The crater is the same size as my mom’s body.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle