submerge
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Listen to Yamaha: A swirling 80s funk groove allows Dijon to submerge himself in the bliss of enduring love.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
"But they are really flat yet prone to human-caused subsidence, so sustained sea level rise could submerge them really fast."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
The implication of Zandi’s research is that the national economy would submerge under the waves if either of these two gigantic state economies were to falter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2025
They rise, fragment, submerge, reconstitute, reemerge, sometimes with different names, different uniforms, but the same cast, and same sentiments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Then the reactor core and spent fuel storage are flooded with enough water to submerge the area to a depth of about 30 feet.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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But at night this thoughtful tenant farmer’s daughter sits in the servants’ hall and submerges herself in serious study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
He submerges his full body into the frigid bubbling water for three chilly minutes, climbs out and hops into the warm whirlpool tub next to it for three minutes.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
"A Very British Scandal" exists to illustrate the double standard society applies to men and women in measuring individual culpability, although the Argylls' tenacious rancor submerges that point too often.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2022
There are no Brix monitors to show when it is ready — someone just dips a stick into it and submerges it in cool water, or uses his wet bare hand.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2021
The captain orders the master-at-arms to fire the cannon, but the whale submerges too quickly to be fired upon.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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Videos on social media show cars submerged in Geoje as strong currents swept the streets.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Those killed included a man in his 60s or 70s found floating in a flooded road and a 66-year-old woman stuck in her submerged car, the Chiba Prefecture Disaster Management Office said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
His team planted fabricated papers naming the targets in a submerged chest in a Czech lake near the German border before “discovering” them in 1964.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Kikai is a mostly submerged volcanic caldera south of Japan.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
The knight is halfway submerged in the bay.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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“The precise mechanisms of holding one’s breath, letting air out, and submerging the body underwater are not visible in the archive,” Ms. Fernando notes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Chiedza tried to climb on her cousin's shoulders, submerging her."
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
In 2022, a 30-metre-high garbage heap at a landfill in West Java's Cipayung triggered a landslide that entered a river, submerging a bridge to the neighbouring village.
From Barron's ● Feb. 17, 2026
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
And what do I expect to gain from submerging myself in an army of Dauntless traitors?
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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