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abyss
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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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    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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    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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    The child born with this blood in him will exceed in power the Greater Demons of the abysses between the worlds.†  (source)
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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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    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)
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    The earth shook beneath me. The ground cracked and opened. I tried to grab something to stop my fall, but my hands clutched only air. I fell into a deep, black abyss lined with tree roots and rocks, and they struck me as I fell.  (source)
    abyss = deep, dark hole
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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)
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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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    'But listen,' said Louis, 'to the world moving through abysses of infinite space.†  (source)
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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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    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)
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