Noun
we dipped our feet in the warm waters of the gulf
the gulf of understanding between the two men was too wide for them to ever get along Verb
with the administration gulfed by so many real problems, it's absurd for the president to concern himself with this nonissue
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In the short term, progressive lawmakers are rushing to fill the gulf left by Biden.—David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2025 This is the gruesome gulf between the parties in the Oval Office.—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
So many gulfs separate us now: geographical, anatomical, psychological.—Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 8 Jan. 2018 Read More: Gulf Spat Escalates as Saudi Arabia, U.A.E. Media Attack Qatar
Institutional and individual investors from the GCC sold 34.6 million riyals ($9.5 million) of Qatari stocks on Monday, the most in a single trading session since March 21.—Glen Carey, Bloomberg.com, 30 May 2017 See All Example Sentences for gulf
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English goulf, from Middle French golfe, from Italian golfo, from Late Latin colpus, from Greek kolpos bosom, gulf; akin to Old English hwealf vault, Old High German walbo
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