submerge
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But it’s when the filmmakers submerge the viewer into that celestial static that “Chronovisor” assumes an enduring, practically ancient quality.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
"I've always been a character actor and I like to submerge myself and try to be somebody else, that's part of the challenge," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026
"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
He started to submerge and Grover said, “I can’t breathe underwater! Just thought I’d mention—” Glub!
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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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 a portion of his sweet potatoes in a jar of water and watches for them to develop growths, also known as slips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Once the barge is in the water, an operator working remotely submerges the turbines or raises them when whales and other sea mammals are detected nearby or during heavy storms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
That inhibits its ability to sink, slowing the overturning circulation that submerges atmospheric carbon and instead leaving it near the surface, limiting the ocean's ability to absorb more of the greenhouse gas.
From Salon ● Apr. 3, 2023
It would be all the more of a mystery to her that the woman submerges herself.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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Within its underground habitat, Erhaia dijiang lives among submerged gravel and broken rock in water less than one meter deep.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
The prolific novelist and short-story writer Joyce Carol Oates introduces readers to Julia, one half of a couple whose long marriage has come to contain strange, submerged, undiscussable elements in “The Disappearing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
A house next door had cracks in its side, and others had wooden decks falling into or submerged in the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
Thidarat Silsuwan, 56, lives alone in her partially submerged house along the Premprachakorn canal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
My own dull personality was submerged at last.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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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
Certain actions, such as submerging the ball in water or exposing it to high heat, are prohibited.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
Rescue operations are under way in Uttarkashi district after a gigantic wave of water gushed down the mountains into Dharali village on Tuesday, submerging roads and buildings in its path.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
For the next eight years, as if submerging into quicksand, I sank deeper into debt.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
Even after his release from chattel slavery, the nation grew over him, submerging him.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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