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[gawrj] / gɔrdʒ /




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In warmer weather, outdoor life shifts to hiking and fly-fishing in Spearfish Canyon Nature Area, a 20-mile gorge in Lead’s backyard lined with 1,000-foot limestone cliffs and waterfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 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

Then there’s a gorge in between and it’s filled with all these, like, monster people that are trying to get them.

From MarketWatch Jan. 6, 2026

They'd been admiring the scenery and snapping selfies and were making their way along a footpath by the Graig Llech gorge when Lola veered off the path.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2025

The other mushers tell the rookies that it is easy to get in trouble in the gorge.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Wind speeds can increase further as they funnel through the valleys and gorges in the area, much like water increases its speed as it passes through a hose.

From BBC Jan. 8, 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

It’s hard to keep your eyes focused on the road as you behold a gauzy mist swirling around the mountains, veiling deep gorges, wide fjords, occasional turf-roofed dwellings and waterfalls.

From New York Times Aug. 30, 2023

By mid-day, the canyons and gorges of the vast park near the border of Nevada shimmered beneath the white-hot sun, but the relentless, eyeball-stinging heat wasn’t enough to stop visitors from braving the danger.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2023

The gray stallion pulled his sled, piled high with rocks, through snowdrifts and through blizzards, up steep hills and down again, through icy gorges.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

“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

Foreign media gorged themselves on the tale of the haves and the have-nots.

From BBC May 13, 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

So also did the cat, its stomach gorged with tiny crumpled wings.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

The solution, in other words, lies somewhere between culling cows in Niger and gorging ourselves on factory-farmed flesh.

From Salon Nov. 29, 2023

As Evergrande was gorging on land, it sought ways to help finance its deals.

From Reuters Aug. 31, 2023

At first the Gangulis sleep most of the day and are wide awake at night, gorging themselves on toast at three in the morning, unpacking the suitcases one by one.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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