noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bushnell stood on the rim of the canyon, with the rocky abyss behind him.
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Critics accused Yeltsin of leading the country into an abyss .
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Matthew found himself standing at the edge of a deep abyss .
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The economic abyss between developed and undeveloped countries is widening.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Behind him is the abyss , the gaping cavern of the gold mine, down and down into the earth.
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He remembered Hause Point, he remembered the abyss he had so often fallen into.
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It surpasses even the natural abysses of the ocean floor.
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Penelope felt a sunken abyss within her gorged with sadness.
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Reason says the same laws of economics that brought the market down should keep it from spiraling into the abyss .
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Without such works of grace the world would rush even more rapidly towards the abyss .