abyss

"Each new format seems to bring us closer and closer to that abyss."

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

This whole Western Conference semifinal series against these defending champions has been a lose-lose proposition for the Lakers, who are now down 3-0 and staring into the elimination abyss in Game 4 on Monday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026

So it is worth taking a moment to stare into the abyss and think through what the world—and your investment portfolio—might look like if the strait still isn’t open by Labor Day or by Christmas.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

And when I think back to the time I stared into the abyss and lived long enough to understand what it meant, I know this: we can’t become a generation that looks away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

“Let’s hope. Unfortunately there’s often a deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action. And as unfair as it is, after a few days any story becomes old news.”

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

And while the play never explicitly explores its underlying theme—that music can help bridge the gaps, or the abysses, that divide people—the deft integration of story and song illuminates it naturally.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Ripples of electronic feedback crest into peaks and valleys of stretched echoes, decayed into hollowed abysses.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

Parker and company don’t rush into any flaming abysses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2021

Tux is philosophically speculative, delivering aphoristic riffs that reveal Kierkegaardian abysses in such daily trivialities as a campfire, and mini marshmallows in cocoa.

From The New Yorker ● May 28, 2019

They occur on the shore within tide mark, and range thence down into the abysses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various