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as in aperture
a place in a surface allowing passage into or through a thing
line up the pegs on section A with the holes in section B and press the two together
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as in pit
a sunken area forming a separate space
dig a hole big enough to plant the tree
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as in predicament
a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape
Bill dug himself into a hole by promising to be in two places at the same time
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as in dump
a dirty or messy place
when people see my room, they often ask, "How can you live in this hole?"
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as in gap
an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)
found a hole in the chain-link fence big enough to squeeze through
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as in void
an incomplete or deficient area
there's a huge hole in your logic
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as in to drill
to make a hole or series of holes in
holed the target with a round of shots
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Recent Examples of hole
David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2025
The par 4 at No. 14 is the most difficult hole at 529 yards, and the closing hole at No. 18 is another tough 500 yard par 4 with the tougher long par 3 at No. 11 making the back nine more challenging.
—Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2025
There’s the usual Olsen twin obsession and extremely low-calorie diet plans circulating on the platform, but that content has traditionally been holed away from the generic TikTok user.
—Makena Kelly, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2024
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This ended with Larson on the track with a hole in his left side, and Logano and Berry in their respective pit boxes but facing the wrong way.
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One photo showed the couple holing mugs proclaiming the best parents ever, and the last slide needed an explanation.
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Read more Egypt Giza Pyramid Mystery Addressed by former Egyptian Official The project used synthetic aperture radar tomography and involved scientists Corrado Malanga of the University of Pisa in Italy and Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.—
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Variable aperture lenses can be found on some Huawei and Xiaomi smartphones, but Samsung could make far more marketing noise if the S26 Ultra were to carry this key feature.—
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Regan Smith gets only Cup win On May 7, 2011, Regan Smith — now a pit reporter for NASCAR on FOX — won the only race of his Cup Series career, defeating newly-inducted Hall of Famer Carl Edwards by 0.196 seconds in the Southern 500.—
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Surrounded by the red rock landscape the region is famous for, the property also has a pool, hot tub and community fire pits. Follow me on Twitter.—
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Chantelle and Kelly, two flight attendants on vacation in the U.K., spoke to Newsweek about their unique predicament.—
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In the Heat’s case, the franchise’s unfortunate predicament stems mostly from personnel decisions involving veteran players, decisions largely made by team president Pat Riley with input from several others.—
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.—
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.—
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Supply chain bottlenecks and shortages of critical components—such as semiconductors and specialized machinery—have further driven up prices, highlighting the substantial gap between current book values and genuine replacement or reproduction costs.—
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The Liverpool midfielder then finds Alvarez in the gap between Nandez and Araujo.—
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Whenever the other eagles in the aviary came near his rock and its nest, Murphy would scream and charge at them, the sanctuary wrote.—
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When the researchers approached the bird’s nest, the fuzzy nestling shook its head, flicking it back and forth.—
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Mom-and-pop bagel shops such as Moe’s in Aventura do their best to fill the void.—
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Sinkholes are natural depressions that form when rock dissolves or collapses, creating deep voids in the ground.—
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The observations draw sharp contrast to previous studies of ecology below the ice, which either dropped cameras down through holes drilled in the ice or took place years after an iceberg calved.—
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The department is also drilling and grouting to stabilize eastbound I-80.—
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“Hole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hole. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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