as in hole
a sunken area forming a separate space a cavity in the lawn where a tree stump had been removed
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Recent Examples of cavity Many communities have chosen to add fluoride to the tap water for decades, as a public health measure that is estimated to reduce cavities by around 25%. —
Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026 The public defender also requested a trial and submitted a healthcare order noting a bullet fragment lodged in Medina-Medina’s nasal cavity. —Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026 Because of its beneficial effects, fluoride is added to some dental products, such as toothpaste, to help prevent cavities. —Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026 Water fluoridation has been heralded as one of the top public health initiatives of the last century for its ability to fight cavities. —Kaan Ozcan, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cavity
Pien Huang, NPR, 15 Apr. 2026 The public defender also requested a trial and submitted a healthcare order noting a bullet fragment lodged in Medina-Medina’s nasal cavity. —Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026 Because of its beneficial effects, fluoride is added to some dental products, such as toothpaste, to help prevent cavities. —Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026 Water fluoridation has been heralded as one of the top public health initiatives of the last century for its ability to fight cavities. —Kaan Ozcan, NBC news, 13 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cavity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavity
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Round pegs found round holes all over the pitch.— Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
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To make your yard appealing to a wide variety of bees, install several bee houses with nesting holes of varying sizes.— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Apr. 2026
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The league’s celebrated new CBA made all these players rich, but did little for the Sparks, who were unable to make a dent in the league-wide free agent market and were out of decent draft picks and so must survive for one more season before getting a shot at JuJu Watkins.— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
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Now the state is eyeing two potential solutions to try and make a dent.— Adam Duxter, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
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The new picture also captures shadowy fractures and pits that hint at large volumes of water ice still buried beneath the surface, as well as numerous impact craters surrounded by the detritus of their own explosive formation.— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
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The show operates a remote pit, meaning a majority of the musicians playing the music live are not in the theatre or under the stage in the traditional orchestra pit.— Dillon Thomas, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
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The new Gilder Center — granite on the outside, shotcrete on the inside, with a seductive composition of concavities and curves — comes off as a true New Yorker: defiantly eccentric, rough, show-offy, and smart.— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 28 Jan. 2026
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And what is the second derivative, or the concavity, of the potential during those same relevant e-foldings of inflation?— Big Think, Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Cavity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/cavity. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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