gorge
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Using a rope system, a volunteer was lowered to the ledge to reach the dog before she was "hauled back up the gorge where she was reunited with her owners".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
A colony of macaques that gorge on snacks offered by tourists in the British territory of Gibraltar swallow soil to recover from their junk food binges, a study has found.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
Isak Andic, the founder of fashion chain Mango, died in late 2024 after falling more than 300 feet into a gorge while out trekking with his son in the Montserrat mountains near Barcelona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
A pantheon of past winners gather to celebrate their success and gorge on a set menu specially selected by the previous year's victor.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
He was forced to climb inland, and by the time he rejoined the river bank on the far side of the gorge there was no sign of the cat.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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It offers quiet roads along coastlines and river gorges and into mountains, among rice paddies and through towns with tiled roofs where villagers pride themselves on their Shikoku hospitality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
"The gorges are very deep and steep, so that's the difficulty."
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Beside him, a younger woman was planning to embark on a long taxi drive with him, across steep mountain passes and narrow gorges, first to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, and then on to nearby Georgia.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
In the same way that trees function as Earth's lungs, migrating animals—eating, pooping and dying along the way—circulate nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges to mountain peaks and from the poles to the tropics.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 19, 2023
The Taklamakan and its buried cities gave way to the western high plateaus where the ground hardened into clay, and gorges had been cut into the rock shelves.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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“Nope,” my friend said as he downed his Mountain Dew and we both gorged on Sun Chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“You think that Alex Jones gorged himself on Whataburger? You’re saying five triple cheeseburgers and how many fry boxes?”
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
January tends to come with a slowdown in spending after consumers have gorged on shopping for the holidays.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
Instead, the American and British public gorged on the sensationalism because that was the supposedly “official” record.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2025
Even now, as Master Gogolev gorged himself on food and self-pity, son and father sat in Lord Fredrick’s taxidermy-filled study only one floor below, speaking of Switzerland, wallpaper, and baby names.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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The bears of Katmai spend summer and early autumn gorging themselves on salmon as they look to bulk up ahead of a long winter of hibernation.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Barely a handful of winters have passed since Patriots fans, still gorging on six titles,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
It’s there that the baleen filter feeders spend the summer gorging on tiny crustaceans from the muddy bottom of the Bering, Chuckchi and Beaufort seas, creating shallow pits or potholes in the process.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
Rather, it denotes licentiousness and lack of control, the actions of a toddler gorging himself on chocolate until he is sick.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2025
It was his first food since yesterday’s gorging.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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