submerge
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"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
For us, the most important thing is that we keep enjoying the concerts, the crowd singing, how people forget everything around them and such submerge themselves in this environment of Maná.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025
The poison from the stingers makes me wobbly, but I find my way back to my own little pool and submerge myself in the water, just in case any wasps are still on my trail.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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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
Torrential floods in southern China have disrupted the lives of almost half a million people, as rising water submerges cars and houses.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
"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
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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Kikai is a mostly submerged volcanic caldera south of Japan.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
By dawn, it had completely submerged the first floor of their homes.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
More disappointing is watching a role held aloft by Witherspoon’s charisma and unsinkable pep be submerged in attitudinal gloom despite Minetree’s best efforts.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
When he opened his eyes, he saw a once-familiar shoreline changing in real time, with swathes of previously submerged coral suddenly pushing above the waterline.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
The dream had pulled him down so deep that he was underneath thought, submerged in a place of pure feeling—and what feeling.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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
But it quickly caught fire on social media, where users have posted videos of themselves drinking a whole cup or submerging entire burritos in it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 18, 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
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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