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cuesta

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Italy’s tourism site notes that professional divers leap from the cliffs during organized events.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Travelers familiar with Scotland’s Isle of Skye may recognize this recipe for remote luxury, though rather than craggy cliffs and emerald-green glens, Noirmoutier is closer to a little slice of California.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026

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The researchers say the ancient escarpment may have influenced river systems, sediment transport and the flooding of continental interiors long before the rapid diversification of complex life during the Cambrian explosion.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
Built around a towering sandstone escarpment that rises through the centre of the property, surrounded by a deliciously cold pool, the architecture was conceived in careful negotiation with the landscape.

— Lara Johnson-Wheeler, Vogue, 3 July 2026

Definition of escarpment

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Natural limestone bluffs will also be visible and incorporated into the design, new renderings show, similar to the bluff inside the nearby Westin hotel.

— Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
The Missouri River Runner runs daily and is a nearly 6-hour, one-way ride, tracing the Missouri river past bluffs, forests, and vineyards blazing red and gold each fall.

— Lauren Dana Ellman, Midwest Living, 15 Oct. 2026

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Thompson’s work is more personal, painted from the perspective of a hiker passing through an open space, looking up and around at the buttes and the flora, exploring unspoiled ground in search of some spiritual connection to nature.

— Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 5 Oct. 2026
The $450 million carbon-neutral library blends seamlessly into the rolling buttes.

— Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of butte

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In 1876, Arthur Lakes, a professor at Jarvis Hall college, discovered several dinosaur fossils on the west side of a hogback west of Denver, including the first fossils to be called stegosaurus.

— Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Views to the east take in Red Rocks Park, the Dakota Ridge hogback, Green Mountain and downtown Denver in the distance.

— John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 May 2026

Definition of hogback

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The team used high-resolution topographic data from satellites, aircraft and drones to detect fault scarps, narrow ridges formed when the ground shifts during an earthquake, that were previously hidden under dense forest and glacial deposits.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Surrounding that is the environmental protective garment (EPG), the heavy, visible, outer covering of the suit that protects the astronauts from cuts and punctures on a lunar terrain that bristles with jagged rocks and scarps.

— Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024

Definition of scarp

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On the precipice of Franco’s dictatorship, Cruz’s character is doing the same.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
The former is a series of sculptural floral compositions in borosilicate glass, ceramic and diamonds that look encased in ice, frozen on the precipice of life’s end.

— Tanya Dukes, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of precipice

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Firefighters began to gain the upper hand on the fire throughout Saturday afternoon, keeping the flames within the burn scar and building containment lines around the fire.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
This is a city full of glittering theater marquees and mint midcentury signage, and ringed with rail yards and the scars of an industrial center remade for human scale.

— Leslie Pariseau, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2026

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