noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unbridgeable gulf/gap/chasm etc (between sb/sth and sb/sth)
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the unbridgeable gulf between the rich and the poor
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
yawning gap/gulf/chasm (between sth)
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A yawning gap was forecast between anticipated social expenditures and resources.
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In publishing the Hepplewhite Guide the Taylors were filling a yawning gap.
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Passion 57% A yawning chasm opens up after these four attributes.
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The yawning gap between the two was deeply worrying.
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There are yawning gulfs stretching down into the abyss which have often swallowed up cities that have fallen into them.
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There is and always has been a yawning gap at the budget end of the amplifier market.
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There was nothing there but a terrible, yawning gap.
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To a yawning gap in how I see the world and how the world sees me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An unsteady-looking rope bridge was the only way to get across the chasm .
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Even today there is a chasm between white and black cultures in the Deep South.
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The landscape was a series of mountains, chasms, canyons and valleys.
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Winters died after her car plunged into the 40-foot chasm .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clinton always has viewed his challenge as bridging political chasms.
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He talked about landslides in previous monsoons that had opened gaping chasms in the cliff behind the village.
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I felt as if I bad crossed a chasm of time and was some new breed of man.
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In it I will look at what happens when employers and educators begin to communicate across the chasm that now separates them.
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Instead, there will be attempts to paper over the chasms and put on a united front for the sake of appearances.
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Never has Chabrol revealed so relentlessly the dangerous, ever-widening chasm between the haves and the have-nots.
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The rehearsal had gone well, and it seemed as though he had successfully jumped the chasm between off- and on-Broadway.