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Recent Examples of hillock
An amalgamation of Hindu and Mughal architectural styles, Amer is perched atop a hillock surrounded by several other ancient structures and historic landmarks.
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Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
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
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
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Shalbha Sarda, Architectural Digest, 4 Mar. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hillock
Noun
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The burden of your inquiry into this wrongful closure should rest squarely on the wrongdoer’s shoulders, not on those of the innocent public trying to access their beloved knoll.—
Letters To The Editor,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 May 2025
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In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee.—
Erika Hayasaki,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
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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 forested foothills are full of pine and fir trees and the area is a popular mountain park for hiking and biking.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
30 June 2025
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This past April, Outside’s Everest columnist Ben Ayers did the 11-day hike from the town of Lukla in the Himalayan foothills to Mount Everest, and documented his journey via a series of travelogue journals, feature stories, and videos.—
Ben Ayers,
Outside Online,
30 June 2025
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Start by just changing the knobs on a dresser, MacDermaid said.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN Money,
3 July 2025
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Users can easily adjust the temperature settings and two fan speeds using the knobs on the bottom left of the unit.—
Izzy Baskette,
People.com,
18 June 2025
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With seven miles of shoreline, the 892-acre park has plenty of space to explore tidal wetlands interspersed with farmland and upland forests.—
Simon Davidson,
Travel + Leisure,
25 May 2025
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This drought tolerant vine grows naturally on dry, sandy soils in pine forest openings and coastal uplands.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
27 Apr. 2025
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The eminence whom the film casts as the prime mover of benevolent governance is Nelson Rockefeller, a liberal Republican (the breed wasn’t uncommon then) who was the state’s governor from 1959 to 1973.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Thanks to courses in communication studies, students are schooled in the evolving business models of the creative industries, and dive into allyship and advocacy through sound studies and the school’s eminence in audiology.—
Todd Gilchrist,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2025
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These included the highlands around Lake Titicaca to the north, the llama-herding plains of the Altiplano to the west and the agriculturally rich valleys of Cochabamba to the east.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 June 2025
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Nestled in the highlands of the 90,000-acre island of Lanai, this quiet escape immerses visitors in the island’s natural beauty.—
Jasmine Browley,
Essence,
20 June 2025
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According to the zoo, the wild rodent had hitched a ride near Minturn, Colo. — a small town in the mountains outside of Aspen that is about 100 miles from Denver.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
1 July 2025
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Imagine standing atop a mountain, gazing at the vast landscape below, trying to make sense of the world around you.—
Ben Verghese,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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“Hillock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hillock. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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