Davy Jones's locker

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Definition of Davy Jones's lockernext
as in high seas

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  1. basin
  2. blue water
  3. depths
  4. sea
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  • Furthermore, the 5-star analyst highlighted the company's focus on a single basin and management's efficient capital allocations across expansion efforts, strategic acquisitions, and share buybacks.
    — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 5 July 2026
  • Schrodinger basin, a large impact crater near the moon’s south pole, shows evidence of geologically recent volcanic activity.
    — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 July 2026
Definition of basin
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  • The beach is located in a unique cove surrounded by mountains, and features rich blue water and expansive golden sand.
    — Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 5 July 2026
  • With wraparound seating beneath both open sky and shaded canopy, guests can take in sweeping views from every angle—Key West’s colorful shoreline on one side, uninterrupted blue water on the other.
    — Stephanie Orma, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of blue water
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  • His core driving philosophy is love in all its variety — from darkest depths to goofiest heights, always delivered with desperation.
    — Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026
  • The simulations that captured the localized effects of individual large impacts also produced wholesale recycling of crust back into the mantle, with material dripping down to depths of at least 600 kilometers.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026
Definition of depths
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  • Transplants from the British Isles In 1776, as the nation’s founding generation proclaimed democratic ideals, music in the emerging United States consisted largely of British ballads, fiddle tunes, sea chanteys and hymns.
    — Ted Olson, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
  • Not disappearing and not fully breaking down, but moving through a human body, into wastewater, through treatment systems never designed to catch it completely, and then out into coastal waters where tides blur the boundary between city and sea.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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