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Recent Examples of foothill
San Diego Gas and Electric Company halted service to more than 15,000 homes and businesses in the foothills and mountains throughout San Diego County.
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
In fire-prone regions like the Los Angeles foothills, organizations often focus on educating the public, helping residents understand fire risks and creating evacuation plans.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
Expected are wind gusts of 50-70 miles per hour along the coasts and in the valleys, and 60-100 miles per hour in the foothills and the mountains.
—Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2025
The areas likely to see the strongest gusts include the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, the mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County and much of Ventura County.
—Judson Jones, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
In fire-prone regions like the Los Angeles foothills, organizations often focus on educating the public, helping residents understand fire risks and creating evacuation plans.
—Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2025
Expected are wind gusts of 50-70 miles per hour along the coasts and in the valleys, and 60-100 miles per hour in the foothills and the mountains.
—Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2025
The areas likely to see the strongest gusts include the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys, the mountains and foothills of Los Angeles County and much of Ventura County.
—Judson Jones, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for foothill
Noun
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In Viñales, limestone knolls, or mogotes, emerge from the valley's bloodred earth like upturned loaves.—
Lydia Bell,
Condé Nast Traveler,
24 Dec. 2024
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This time, of course, there would be heightened Secret Service protection, complete with drones and dogs to ferret out any potential assassins hiding out in the bushes or in a grassy knoll.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
21 Sep. 2024
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Leave a comment View Comments The formations have also provided insight into one of the biggest mysteries on Mars — why the planet has a marked boundary between the soaring highlands of its southern hemisphere and shallow plains in the northern hemisphere.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
26 Jan. 2025
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Still, White had to find the actual hotel, spending months touring Thailand’s rolling northern highlands, bustling Bangkok, and southern beach resorts of Phuket and Krabi.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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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.—
Gabriel Winslow-Yost,
Harper's Magazine,
23 Sep. 2024
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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
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The site also boasts grasslands, dry forests and upland areas — just about every habitat southern Indiana has to offer.—
Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
20 Dec. 2024
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The country’s upland areas are covered by a patchwork of teams made up of locals from all walks of life.—
Tristan Kennedy,
WIRED,
7 Oct. 2024
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Craters pitted the earth; hummocks rose and fell; downed trees jutted from slash heaps like the spars of shipwrecks.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 Feb. 2024
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On that June evening, as the sun set, throwing billows of magenta clouds in the western sky, Heckscher saw ferns, grass-like sedges and hummocks of mosses, all signs of a healthy wetland.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 May 2023
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The Santa Ana winds—hot, dry gusts descending from inland mountains—and severe drought conditions have created a perfect environment for wildfires to ignite rapidly and spread uncontrollably.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
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Photos show the hound wearing the orange rescue harness on top of the mountain.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Jan. 2025
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Combined with gains in efficiency, a shift towards service industries in advanced economies, and an aging population, these changes could lead to a plateau in emissions growth.—
Aldo Flores-Quiroga,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Wildlife officials said the return of the leopards to the plateau validates conservation efforts made in the region.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
15 Jan. 2025
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Examples include moving the master bedroom to the first floor, replacing knobs with handles, and installing tall toilets.—
Steve Parrish,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Interior 1/6 The absence of anything remotely resembling a physical knob or dial inside either vehicle is a pretty good sign that automakers continue to ignore the pleas of customers to stop porting every last bit of functionality through its digital interfaces.—
Andrew J. Hawkins,
The Verge,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Foothill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foothill. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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