as in hollow
curved inward
a concave lens
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as in cavity
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Recent Examples of concave
PCMAG, 25 June 2024
The aluminum superstructure is also adorned with sinuous concave patterns that reflect the movement of waves when the sun is in the right position.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2024
Essentially, a glass concave structure is covered with LED screens that create an immersive 180-degree virtual realm in which seafarers can explore the Serengeti or watch a Grand Prix race, for example.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
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Adjective
The buttons are easy to operate thanks to their clicky feel and concave indentation, though backlighting would have been helpful for low-light situations.
—PCMAG, 25 June 2024
The aluminum superstructure is also adorned with sinuous concave patterns that reflect the movement of waves when the sun is in the right position.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
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Thirty-foot-wide (10-meter-wide) boulders, as well as concave spots and ridges, litter its surface.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 July 2024
Essentially, a glass concave structure is covered with LED screens that create an immersive 180-degree virtual realm in which seafarers can explore the Serengeti or watch a Grand Prix race, for example.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Jan. 2024
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Unlike a snake, which injects venom through hollow fangs, the gila monster’s venom flows through large grooved lower teeth.Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Though the knife handle is hollow, the rest of the pieces are nicely weighted, and Lenox offers a limited lifetime warranty against defects.Emily Farris, Bon Appétit, 18 Oct. 2024
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Here's what may come: Drinking Water Kennedy has vowed to immediately remove fluoride from drinking water, a major reversal in a decades-long practices that has been praised for drastically reducing cavities and strengthening teeth.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Stuff yellow onion quarters and 4 thyme sprigs in turkey cavity.Nicole Hopper, Southern Living, 4 Nov. 2024
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Over time, scuba divers and wreck hunters have claimed to have found the sunken ship.Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2024
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This fungal disease appears as gray blotches on the bark, eventually developing into sunken cankers.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
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The city also received grants from the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta Conservancy to redevelop Central Harbor Park with features such as fire pits and a new police substation.Hema Sivanandam, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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Here, the lush grounds are decked out with a fire pit, a heated plunge pool adorned with Zellige tile, and a Sonos surround sound system.Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 4 Nov. 2024
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As Christina, the youngest of a trio of sisters, Olsen spends the film playing mediator between Natasha Lyonne’s depressed stoner, Rachel, and Carrie Coon’s domineering control freak, Katie.Rachel Handler, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Some staffers pretended to call on behalf of a depressed relative.Max Blau, ProPublica, 14 Nov. 2024
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Antonio Stradivari, for instance, carefully tinkered with the geometry of his violins—the relative concavity of the back and the front, the thickness of the wood—to produce his legendary results.Chris Almeida, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2024
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Fluted white marble columns sit on black granite pedestals, carrying the eye upward to where lines slide over, folds narrow, and concavities become convex.Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
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The Fed’s duties expanded after the Great Depression, another crisis that was triggered by a stock market crash and made worse by an agricultural depression brought on by unsustainable farming practices, droughts and the Dust Bowl.Reco McCambry, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
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Postpartum depression symptoms can include persistent feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, eating and sleep disturbances and excessive irritability or crying.Dr. Esther Zusstone, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
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These nominees must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, though the push is on to appoint them while the Senate is in recess.Joanna Allhands, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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There is also the prospect that Trump will seek to install other problematic nominees via recess appointments, in which a bypasses the confirmation process and puts in place someone for a limited period.Ted Johnson, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Concave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concave. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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