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cesspool

[ses-pool] / ˈsɛsˌpul /
NOUN
pit
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“These last two years have been just a cesspool of coercion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

What once felt like quirks of their Altadena neighborhood — helping upkeep the road, running on a cesspool — “all these things ... have turned into nightmares,” Whirledge said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

It was into the post-noughties misogynist cesspool that the early feminist blogosphere was born, and initially, it was fun and freewheeling.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026

The misery now being inflicted on poor people crowded into cesspool camps from the Congo to Bangladesh defies description.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

He thought it was at the very end of nowhere, filled with honkytonks and little better than the cesspool of Snyder.

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




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