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as in concave
curved inward
our convalescing guest's sunken cheeks soon filled out on a diet of my mother's cooking
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Recent Examples of sunken
Everyone around me is complaining about their sunken eyes.
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Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
The park has a full-size soccer field, a sunken basketball court that doubles as a reservoir, a long wooden walkway raised above plantings and tall grasses, a community pavilion, a café, and a fifty-thousand-gallon cistern that captures rain for irrigation.
—Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
For more than half a century, the story of a giant squid attack on the survivors of a sunken troop ship during World War II has made the rounds.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2026
In February 2017 separate studies examining Earth’s geological and geophysical characteristics revealed evidence of ancient sunken continents in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
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Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 7 Apr. 2026
The park has a full-size soccer field, a sunken basketball court that doubles as a reservoir, a long wooden walkway raised above plantings and tall grasses, a community pavilion, a café, and a fifty-thousand-gallon cistern that captures rain for irrigation.
—Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
For more than half a century, the story of a giant squid attack on the survivors of a sunken troop ship during World War II has made the rounds.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Apr. 2026
In February 2017 separate studies examining Earth’s geological and geophysical characteristics revealed evidence of ancient sunken continents in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sunken
Adjective
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Using a clean towel, apply a generous amount of food-safe mineral oil to the concave side.—
Staff Author,
Martha Stewart,
31 Mar. 2026
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Lightly wet just the concave side of the board and place it on a damp kitchen towel on your countertop.—
Lizzy Briskin,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Ukraine has been developing an underwater version to go after submarines.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Apr. 2026
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In a series first, Captain Sig Hansen launches an unprecedented covert scouting mission, deploying an underwater drone into the unknown waters in a bold attempt to locate the rare strain of king crab before the rest of the fleet arrives.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Underground storage moves forward The project relies on naturally occurring salt caverns, formed by the dissolution of salt rock, creating large underground hollow spaces.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Apr. 2026
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) peered 10,000 light-years into space to trace the origin of buckyballs, which are large and hollow molecules resembling a soccer ball.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Seminoles held off West Orange 8-4 in Saturday’s final at the Belen school’s aquatic center in Miami.—
Steve Gorches,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 Apr. 2026
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These massive mollusks may even have eaten large aquatic reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, which were themselves believed to be among the main marine predators of the time.—
Adam England,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Researchers believe inbreeding led to depressed survival rates in pups.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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Sam is very depressed and feels lonely and isolated.—
Staff Author,
PEOPLE,
25 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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One of the major functions of modern navies is submarine hunting.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2026
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Last December, lawmakers passed a short-term funding bill that included $5.7 billion in emergency funding for the submarine industrial base.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Los Angeles firefighters pulled Andrade’s teenage son from the lake first, but struggled to locate the father, who remained submerged.—
Anthony Thompson,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Scientists with the Environmental Defense Fund said in a 2019 study that hydropower plants and reservoirs can emit substantial greenhouse gases, but their depth and design, the amount of submerged vegetation, and local climate influence how much.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Sunken.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sunken. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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