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chthonic

[thahn-ik, kuh-thahn-ik] / ˈθɑn ɪk, kəˈθɑn ɪk /


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These were the days of $5 minimums, which meant that my stack of chips would be bled away gracefully, deep into the chthonic night.

From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025

Nor the 19th century poets and cults obsessed with everything chthonic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025

The karst lands are so embedded in our cultural sense of place, we’ve got our own map of chthonic legends.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2023

What’s most striking is his vocal versatility: He can go down to chthonic depths when playing a centaur, for instance, yet for Hades, he models his grandiosely arch line readings after Paul Lynde’s.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2019

Nor was it an old city with obscure origins draped in chthonic myth, like Athens or Thebes.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro


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