cesspools

noun

plural of cesspool
as in sinks
a place of great vice and corruption over the decades the once-respectable neighborhood had become an urban cesspool

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Recent Examples of cesspools In Levittown, the cost-cutting builders at first hadn’t even bothered with tanks and had installed cesspools instead—three decades later, the suburb’s sewer system was still under construction. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026 Gobler says the culprit is our area's warming waters and too much nitrogen, mostly from underground aging and leaking cesspools. — Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2026 These improvements amount to little more than empty symbolic gestures when our parks immediately revert to looking like cesspools. — Rafael Perez, Daily News, 16 Jan. 2026
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sinks
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  • Why the trend is taking off now Two forces are pushing workstation sinks into more kitchens.
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  • Here is what these sinks actually do, what slides into them and why designers keep calling them the new heart of the kitchen.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of sinks

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“Cesspools.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cesspools. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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