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The North Sea seafloor is dotted with thousands of crater-like depressions in the sediment known as pockmarks.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

Tucson’s crater-like monument notwithstanding, these impacts feel less like the strikes of meteors than the devastations of a cancer devouring us from within.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023

The caldera is a crater-like depression around 5km across.

From Scientific American • Jan. 18, 2022

When traffic practically vanished during the very first strict months of Italy’s pandemic lockdown, road crews had a rare opportunity to work 24/7 filling crater-like potholes without causing tie-ups.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2021

After passing Lanuvium it crossed a crater-like valley or immense substructions, which still remain.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.