as in caves
a naturally formed underground chamber with an opening to the surface
a cavern with beautiful stalactites
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Recent Examples of caverns
In addition to three obvious places—Carlsbad, Wind Cave, and Mammoth Cave—other national parks have caverns.
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Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 4 Apr. 2025
The valley blanketed in trees and speckled with caves and caverns combines with the peaks and hills surrounding it to create an outdoor lover’s paradise.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
The caverns of the mind and spirit are appealing as Neptune moves into Aries.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Males pour by the thousands from the depths of the limestone caverns, coiling over rocks and one another in a slow-motion frenzy of courtship.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Over eons, water dissolved the calcium carbonate, etching deep fissures and caverns into the stone.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Prefabricated buildings erected in the underground caverns housed sleeping quarters, latrines, laboratories, a mess hall, laundry and gym.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Within these insulated caverns, temperatures can soar to 77°F (25°C)—a staggering contrast to the brutal cold above, where winter temperatures can drop below -100°F (-73°C).
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
The entire operation runs almost solely on paper, each retirement file hand-processed by hundreds of workers in a limestone mine 230 feet underground who ferry pieces of paper between the caverns to put them in the right manila folder.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 4 Apr. 2025
The valley blanketed in trees and speckled with caves and caverns combines with the peaks and hills surrounding it to create an outdoor lover’s paradise.
—Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2025
The caverns of the mind and spirit are appealing as Neptune moves into Aries.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Males pour by the thousands from the depths of the limestone caverns, coiling over rocks and one another in a slow-motion frenzy of courtship.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Over eons, water dissolved the calcium carbonate, etching deep fissures and caverns into the stone.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Prefabricated buildings erected in the underground caverns housed sleeping quarters, latrines, laboratories, a mess hall, laundry and gym.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 15 Mar. 2025
Within these insulated caverns, temperatures can soar to 77°F (25°C)—a staggering contrast to the brutal cold above, where winter temperatures can drop below -100°F (-73°C).
—Scott Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
The entire operation runs almost solely on paper, each retirement file hand-processed by hundreds of workers in a limestone mine 230 feet underground who ferry pieces of paper between the caverns to put them in the right manila folder.
—Zeynep Tufekci, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Caverns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caverns. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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