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    She said the project pulled her out of the abyss after her mother died.
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    These were men who had built up wealth and social status over long careers and now found themselves looking into the abyss. [of a stock market crash]  (source)
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    Early on a difficult climb, especially a difficult solo climb, you constantly feel the abyss pulling at your back.  (source)
    abyss = long drop
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    Thomas quickly scrambled to the edge of the abyss, poking his head over to see the falling Grievers.  (source)
    abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
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    His opening eyes met Lorenzo's, close and flashing, and it was on seeing horror deep in them, like fires in abysses, that he recognized it for the first time.†  (source)
    abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
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    It's a heavy blow for us, not only because those poor Jews are once again balancing on the edge of an abyss, but also because it's terrible for Mr. van Hoeven.  (source)
    abyss = bottomless pit (figurative for a frightening situation)
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    'But listen,' said Louis, 'to the world moving through abysses of infinite space.†  (source)
    abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
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    He held his pants out into an abyss and let them fall into darkness.  (source)
    abyss = seemingly bottomless pit
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    The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.†  (source)
    abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
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    Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages.  (source)
    abyss = bottomless pit (figurative usage)
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    It may be that he swept back into the past, and fell among the blood-drinking, hairy savages of the Age of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times.†  (source)
    abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
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    PUTNAM—at the moment he is intent upon getting Parris, for whom he has only contempt, to move toward the abyss: Mr. Parris, I have taken your part in all contention here, and I would continue; but I cannot if you hold back in this.  (source)
    abyss = frightening bottomless pit (figurative)
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    Then they thawed out in the sun, and sat with their legs hanging over infinite abysses, chattering, laughing, and smoking.†  (source)
    abysses = holes or dropoffs so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply frightening bottomless pits
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