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Recent Examples of hogbackThese geomorphic formations of rugged slopes are known locally as ‘hogbacks’ and present a particularly harsh environment in which to try and perfect agricultural techniques.—Paul Caputo, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 The power lines that are perched on the property, its water scarcity, and the fact that Thunder Valley is surrounded on the hogback by trails and open space means it likely won’t be overrun by a housing development anytime soon.—Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 8 June 2024 The complex sits downhill from the main part of town along a hogback ridge and has its own parking lot.—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024 Red sandstone hogbacks, Horsetooth Reservoir coves and bridges are some of the highlights while snowshoeing here, while elevation stays at a pretty constant 5,500 feet or so above sea level.—Mindy Sink, The Know, 6 Dec. 2019 The home is on a ¾-acre site that slopes into open space, allowing for a daylit, finished walk-out lower level, plus an entertainment-sized deck overlooking the hogback ridges and peekaboo views of city lights beyond.—Mark Samuelson, The Denver Post, 2 Aug. 2019 Some runners combine those trails with the Dakota Ridge hogback across the highway, a run of about 7 miles in total.—John Meyer, The Know, 22 July 2019 Popular with mountain bikers, trail runners and hikers, this hike will provide some elevation gain, then views of the plains and the hogbacks.—Mindy Sink, The Know, 6 July 2019 Soon these will give way to starker vistas of tenuous grassland and hogback mesa.—Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2018
Hotel Yellowstone sits on a butte that overlooks the mountain range and each of the property’s 36 suites are privately situated in clusters across the four-acre property.
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Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2024
With 22 national parks and monuments to its name, Arizona boasts some of the most astonishing landscapes in the country, from the Grand Canyon to the towering buttes of Monument Valley and the undulating rock formations of the Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness.
Off the water, an easy 1.25-mile hike leads to one of the overlooks at Horseshoe Bend, where the Colorado River takes a drastic turn around a massive sandstone escarpment.
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Graham Averill,
Outside Online,
4 Feb. 2025
The stately Fairmont Le Château Frontenac is a ubiquitous presence in Quebec City, always peering down on visitors from its highpoint on the Cap Diamant escarpment.
The value of Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency, a meme coin aptly called $TRUMP, has fallen off a cliff – and its investors have lost around $12 billion.
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George Nelson,
ARTnews.com,
4 Mar. 2025
Even Baby boomers are backing off alcohol a bit, with seltzers/sparkling up 13% and fruit juices edging up 1%, as beer drops 7%, spirits slide 12%, wine plummets 15%, and soft drinks fall off the cliff by 16%.
Its bluffs and beaches became a vast cemetery, volcanic ash and black sand burying the dead.
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Hannah Beech,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
No one disputes that the bluff and beach closures to accommodate the presence and natural life activities of the pinniped constrain unlimited human presence.
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Bill Tippets,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
1 Feb. 2025
The rupturing fault created an approximately 20 meters (or 65 feet) high new scarp on the seafloor, which in turns caused the water displacement and a series of six tsunami moving both east towards Sumatra, and west towards Sri Lanka, India and Africa—eventually reaching the Atlantic and Pacific.
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David Bressan,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
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.
Many of the selections underscore the social stresses and inequalities of the growing metropolis, the scars left by the harsh military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983, and the human costs of Argentina’s recurrent economic crises.
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Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Older Brazilians carry the scars, in many cases literal ones, of their fight against dictatorship.
Most of my climbing took place at Boulder’s local crags, or more often than not, at the climbing gym, with occasional trips to far away destinations.
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Lynn Hill,
Outside Online,
17 Feb. 2025
Crossing seven modern-day prefectures and the snowy crags of the Japanese Alps, this thoroughfare, the Nakasendō, connected the imperial capital of Kyoto with the cultural capital of Edo (now Tokyo).
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