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noun

abyss

a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)

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Six example sentences with abyss, each labelled with its topic.

  • Sunlight fails a few hundred meters down, and below that the abyss holds creatures that make their own light.

    Science

  • Hikers toss a stone from the ledge and count to six before any sound comes back from the abyss.

    Travel

  • After the currency collapsed, savings that had taken thirty years to build vanished into an abyss within a month.

    Economics

  • One misjudged jump sends your character tumbling into the abyss, and the last checkpoint is ten minutes back.

    Gaming

  • Nietzsche warned that anyone who stares too long into the abyss will find it staring back.

    Philosophy

  • The bank's shares fell into an abyss that week, losing ninety percent before trading was finally halted.

    Finance

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