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At the time, downtown OKC was little more than a small outcropping of skyscrapers surrounded by fields of empty parking lots.
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
Based on a novel by Joan Lindsey, the film is about a group of schoolgirls who, on Valentine’s Day in 1900, go to a remote scenic outcropping to spend the day.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025
On a rocky outcropping by the water, fishermen like to gather to catch blue runner, mangrove snapper, grunt, barracuda and occasionally a blue crab.
—Nicolas Rivero, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
The cataract is a tall rock outcropping jutting towards the surface from the sea floor, and over the cataract’s edge, there is an 11,500-foot drop.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 7 Feb. 2025
Based on a novel by Joan Lindsey, the film is about a group of schoolgirls who, on Valentine’s Day in 1900, go to a remote scenic outcropping to spend the day.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2025
On a rocky outcropping by the water, fishermen like to gather to catch blue runner, mangrove snapper, grunt, barracuda and occasionally a blue crab.
—Nicolas Rivero, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
The cataract is a tall rock outcropping jutting towards the surface from the sea floor, and over the cataract’s edge, there is an 11,500-foot drop.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Outcropping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outcropping. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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outcropping
noun
out·crop·ping
ˈȧut-ˌkrä-piŋ 
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