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  • noun Plural form of cavity.

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Examples

  • Honestly, nature isn't kind to humans, because all the progress, all the evolution, has left us with brain cavities too big to deliver easily and naturally, so we have to just stop comparing ourselves to animals who whelp themselves alone in the wild without complications.

    A, B, C-Section kittenpie 2008

  • Honestly, nature isn't kind to humans, because all the progress, all the evolution, has left us with brain cavities too big to deliver easily and naturally, so we have to just stop comparing ourselves to animals who whelp themselves alone in the wild without complications.

    Archive 2008-08-01 kittenpie 2008

  • The principal supplies of petroleum are not diffused between the planes of stratification, but are collected in cavities more or less sunken in the strata; whence the oil is less liable to be carried away by running water.

    The Action of Oil Wells 1864

  • At this moment one of these cavities is designated as the barber's shop, another the baker's, &c.; shelves and tākches (a shelf cut in a wall) are visible in many of these recesses, which are now used by the Koords as dwellings in winter.

    Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia 1856

  • Gul said he was singled out in the reports because of American fears that he will expose U.S. "cavities" -- corruption, poor planning and complicity in the opium trade -- in the Afghan conflict.

    Document leak part of U.S. plot, says Pakistani ex-general with ties to Taliban 2010

  • Dental caries, also known as cavities or tooth decay, is a communicable disease.

    Mobile dental clinic brings care to poor children in Prince George's County 2011

  • Sure, a comfort soda a day might keep the stressors away, but the cavities will be a beast.

    Katie Hawkes: How Britney Spears Prepared Me for Grown-Up Life 2010

  • Nicholasism for today: "I don't want the cookie, it has sugar and I don't want holes aka cavities" and he went and grabbed a green apple instead.

    Archive 2006-05-01 2006

  • Nicholasism for today: "I don't want the cookie, it has sugar and I don't want holes aka cavities" and he went and grabbed a green apple instead.

    Sweetnicks- Food & Life - It's All at Sweetnicks 2006

  • Nuwer's so-called cavities, he concluded, had actually been "incipient carious lesions," a form of early stage decay that some dentists call "microcavities."

    The Seattle Times 2011

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