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- noun Plural form of
gulf .
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Examples
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"gulfs" before mentioned and an occasional prominent sandstone wall or bowlder.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884 Various
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For those directly affected it can spur nearly superhuman levels of heroism or drive people otherwise separated by the gulfs of class and race into a peculiar but necessary and oddly beautiful teamwork.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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Though the gulfs of Hell yawn'd yonder, though the Earth were ended there,
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"We're used to these vast gulfs between Republicans and Democrats on Afghanistan," Republican pollster Whit Ayres says.
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Let me offer a theory here about one of the many gulfs that separate the pundit class from real Americans.
Election 2010: Results and analysis with The Post's Robert G. Kaiser Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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I wanted to show how together the two can create vast, seemingly inseparable gulfs between people.
Dinaw Mengestu discusses many aspects of his first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears 2010
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It dawned on me that the gulfs between us will always be there, the things we can never know or be able to change.
Level Shilo Morlang 2012
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For those directly affected it can spur nearly superhuman levels of heroism or drive people otherwise separated by the gulfs of class and race into a peculiar but necessary and oddly beautiful teamwork.
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None of them, it is worth pointing out, has ever fully embraced the term "minimalism", and the seeds of how differently the minimalist impulse would be taken up by later composers are already there in the huge aesthetic and temperamental gulfs that separate Riley's music from Reich's, or Glass's from Young's.
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Let me offer a theory here about one of the many gulfs that separate the pundit class from real Americans.
Election 2010: Results and analysis with The Post's Robert G. Kaiser Robert G. Kaiser 2010
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