Yawning in example sentence

In the realm of reality, the latest of many “grand” summits in Brussels has left a yawning gap between Europe and a fiscal union, as heads of state stripped much of the substance from the blueprint proposed by Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, and developed by the European Commission.

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You would think this wouldn't be too hard, that we would simply have the ability to take this fundamental information that we're learning about how it is that basic biology teaches us about the causes of disease and build a bridge across this yawning gap between what we've learned about basic science and its application, a bridge that would look maybe something like this, where you'd have to put together a nice shiny way to get from one side to the other.

This phenomenon is known as contagious yawning.

Our first physiological hypothesis states that contagious yawning is triggered by a specific stimulus, an initial yawn.

Scientists discovered this empathetic response to yawning while testing the first hypothesis we mentioned, fixed action pattern.

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