cavern
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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
The group had been hunting for gold when they were cut off inside the cavern in an isolated part of the country after flash floods hit on 20 May.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
The cave, an underwater system which extends for hundreds of meters through multiple chambers and internal passages, begins with a first large, bright cavern with a sandy bottom.
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
Slowly he feasted off them to the last shred, and then, satisfied, stretched himself out across the cavern and slept.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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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
In underground salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana, the U.S. government stores hundreds of millions of barrels worth of oil in case of energy shocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Meanwhile, inventories in the government-run Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a system of salt caverns on the Gulf Coast, keep falling and sit at the lowest level since 1983.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
About a quarter of all helium goes to chip companies and, importantly, existing caverns hold more than the industry’s annual consumption, according to Quinn-Barabanov.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
As if to answer, she heard in the caverns of her own memories the padded footsteps of something quiet, predatory, and terrifying, coming closer and closer and closer.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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