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Recent Examples of chasm
There’s a gaping chasm, however, between being a seller and actually closing a deal.
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Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
Spider also faces off with his villainous biological father, Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang), who jumps into a fiery chasm and meets an uncertain fate.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 20 Dec. 2025
Similar gaps are clear by age and education, with a particularly wide chasm between those who have college degrees (60% satisfied with their savings) and those who do not have college degrees (41%).
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 17 Dec. 2025
An Egyptian official attributed the lack of progress on the next phase to the chasm of distrust between Israel and Hamas.
—Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
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Noun
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The Stoic philosophers, fixated on the impassive, idealized masculine, wrote often of death, attempting to acknowledge its inevitability while staring untroubled into its abyss.—
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Khamenei is on the edge of the abyss.—
Noun
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Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous surf and NEVER turn your back on the ocean.—
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The iceberg sat in the shallow water of the Weddell Sea in the Southern Ocean for more than 30 years before breaking free in 2020 and into an ocean whirlpool for several months.—
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“Chasm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chasm. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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