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Oftentimes, there’s a chasmic dissonance between the urge to fulfill societal expectations of the quintessential athlete and what can actually be accomplished while one’s health flounders.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

Longtime Sacramento budget writers are quick to recall the fallout from the early 2000s dot-com bust, which turned surpluses into chasmic deficits.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2022

As for the legacy or genealogy side of things, there are chasmic unknowns to mummifying yourself in the digital world.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2022

Class disparity was chasmic, inflation had reached a point of inanity and the country seemed to hang its head in shame.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2020

That the demarcation between the two disciplines is not a chasmic cleavage, but a line, and that, too, an historically shifting line, is apparent from the foregoing historical résumé.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various