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gulf

[guhlf] / gʌlf /




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The gulf between contribution rates of those paying loans and those without debt widened with age.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

Age gaps in digital literacy are a global concern, yet the gulf has widened massively in the hyper-connected and fast-ageing country, prompting national campaigns to bridge it.

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

So for all the tension between the film and its subject to come through in the press of late, the gulf between them is not so wide as one might suspect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

It looked a competitive total at the halfway mark, but on a flat pitch offering little assistance for the bowlers, the gulf in class and experience was stark in the second innings.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

The gulf between the information we publicly proclaim and the information we know to be true is often vast.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

All nine countries lining the two connected gulfs, including Iran under any management, will want passage restored.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

England have contributed to the biggest gulfs, beating Italy 74-0 and Ireland 69-0 in 2022.

From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023

Crooms wants to narrow some of those gulfs with the grant.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023

The other two spawn in the spring in either the central Baltic or its gulfs farther north.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2022

She could feel the emptiness, the vast black gulfs of air that yawned around her.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin




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