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The shock is not the expanse alone but the density, the way every hillock and cavern is filled with incident and variety.
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Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
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Gabriel Winslow-Yost, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
The entrance is through a structure that could be a brutalist one-car garage dug into a hillock.
—Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Six rescuers climbed down the hill, while another 50 assisted atop the hillock.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
This year, Novotny’s fields atop a hillock in Chatfield are one of the test plots for camelina.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hillock. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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hillock
noun
hill·ock
ˈhil-ək 
: any small anatomical prominence or elevation see axon hillock
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